Victoria: Showers and thunderstorms - October 6th-7th 2010

[droughtbreaker]

About three minutes of torrential rain, some weak squalls and a bit of thunder and lightning. At least I got something, very nearly missed out.

Driveway is awash now and spouting leaking furiously.

[Onetahuti]

Frequent rolls of thunder, 13.5mm so far, still raining moderately to heavy.

[Instability]

That rain is intense!!!!

I saw 3 rather large pulsing CG's in the last 5 minutes out to my SE. 1 was probably just a little south of you Karl - any flangs out your way?

Rog.

[Duckey]

BTW the intensification I believe is a combination of frictional convergence - the band coming off the flat western plains/bay and hit the eastern burbs hills and also the bay effect. I suspect friction is the main factor this time of year.

Thanks hillybilly Dry here also, although the wind is really picking up now and getting quite gusty. No rumbles and haven't seen any distant flashes yet either.

[James]

light hail with heavy rain now and thunder here

[Duckey]

Temp guage is now saying 18 degrees?? That's gone up 2 degrees in the last 1/2 hr.

Woah, huge gust of wind and down comes the rain!!

[melsy]

Small hail, wind and rumbles in Bayswater.

[Dez]

WOW MASSIVE CC's right to the north but at such a good and close view. This is the most lightning active storm i've been close to in the past 5 years. Thunder is hardly audible now though.

[tizza]

flang

[Karl Lijnders]

37mm here and under water in the streets and going to the creek down the road.

8mm at the AWS which is obscene.

The back is flooding too here. Patio under water.

Hmmmmm. Looks like I again cop the best of it!!

[occluded]

Rain started, then stopped suddenly, then started suddenly... like someone upstairs is playing funny bugrs with a big tap.

No trees down yet so still quiet on that front.

EDIT: big lightning bolt, thunder no more than 5 sec away.

[Duckey]

FLANG!! first bit of lightning for the night, 4 second delay to thunder. Now small hail as well.

[tizza]

37mm here and under water in the streets and going to the creek down the road.

8mm at the AWS which is obscene.

The back is flooding too here. Patio under water.

Hmmmmm. Looks like I again cop the best of it!!

The CBD AWS is doing the same thing too

[Duckey]

The rain here is now absolutely torrential, haven't seen anything like it here since NYE. Can't hear myself think over the noise of it on the laserlight over the back deck

[Australis(Shell3155)]

4mm here, out of this lot.
10.5 for the day.

You WIN as alsways Karl.!

[nafets]

14.8 degrees atm and dropping, 82% humidity, NNW winds, 17mm so far and raining. Heaps of lighting turning the sky almost blue!

EDIT: 18.5mm now!

[Karl Lijnders]

Blind creek is now Blind Rapids.

Water over the road on Timothy Drive. Cars turning around. I just got out in time as more water was coming down.

Heavy rain continues.

I am not sure how much more I have had but surely that is just incredible.

Edit. Huge CC!!!

[Karl Lijnders]

Judging by radar the system pivoted in front of the hills for 20 minutes giving us a smacking!!

Rain backed off but lightning increasing to the north and northeast for the NE suburbs so could be some big falls there.

I cannot believe how heavy it was. Even had marble hail too!

[Onetahuti]

Temp guage is now saying 18 degrees?? That's gone up 2 degrees in the last 1/2 hr.

Woah, huge gust of wind and down comes the rain!!

Temp has fallen to 12.9C, pressure up from 1008 hPa @ 6:31 pm to 1014 hPa now, 16.5mm of rain.

[Duckey]

**FLANG!!**

Up to 12mm already and looks like continuing for at least the next 10-15 mins. Lots of CG's and deep rumblies.