Drizzly start here then frequent W'ly showers added to the overnight drizzle to give us another 7mm to bring this thread total to 35mm - way above the model progs. Baro has been down for days now, still only 1002 hPa, so more westerly showers are possible overnight before the system digs down and throws Southerlies up at us, will be in the lee of Tassie so totals from now to Sat shouldnt exceed a further 5mm imo
...... and we dont need any more rain, no deluges yet this year but nicely lifting above the yearly average over past 6 weeks.
Mind you I still think the next system or the one after it will bring unecessary high rainfall into Gippsland - just going by the law of averages.
Yeah sitting on 31mm further to your east here and pouring again here. Might scrape 40mm from a very tough week to squeeze a drop here in C VIC. It means that the NW suburbs and Melbourne probably faired worst.
In any case, above average here for I don't know how many months in a row now.
We always do well out of the moist south westerlies, must be a geographical effect, though we are slightly down the hill. Manage to find the narrow convergant lines in such situations.
Yeah went for a drive and its Belting down around pine wood yet only light drizzle almost mist toward Clayton.
Coming back just dumping down some of the thickest heaviest drizzle i have ever seen from Pine wood to syndal station
up to 31mm and still coming down unreal I expect many more nights like this come Winter
moving back to the burbs and living in an exposed area is a shock to the system, it's HOWLING out there. I doubt I would have hardly noticed this back in Richmond.
34.1mm at home, and 60mm in the Dandenongs. Another months average taken care of. Stream still strong and trajectory changed to inner suburbs. A great system considering it was so complex and didn't favor us at all.
I'm quite surprised by my total on my automatic gauge this morning...20mm. I can't verify it's accuracy at the moment as it had crashed when I checked at 11pm last night. I'll check the manual one closer to 9am.
16.5mm to 8am this morning (versus 14.2mm at Viewbank).
Some sharp showers came through in the wee hours and some decent wind gusts too, enough to knock off two large palm branches onto the roof at 4am (gave me a decent jolt awake!).
Finished with just under 40mm for the event. 39.7mm. Was a nice drop. See that Glen Waverley to the west had 35mm, Mitcham had 38mm, The Basin to the NE had 40mm and Montrose 50mm then up at Mount Dandenong 63mm. A good result and in the end the whole state has done fairly well apart from the western plains of the C district.
Managed 16.8mm to 9am this morning, still some drizzly stuff this morning but mostly cleared by now to cloudy conditions. Event total is around 25mm if I am remembering yesterdays total correctly, but will confirm this when I get home.
An amazing system re it's complexity.
Jake - Senior AWF Forecaster
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