EPIC DAY... one of my top 10 storm days!!
A brief summary of my day (footage to come on my future website)...
I was out for much of the day, went to see Love Never Dies at the Regent Theatre as stated yesterday.
Nice sunrise with a couple of rainbows in the morning, followed by showers up until about miday... initially declared today a write-off until I saw the satellite pics before I left for the City, was very sultry and windy from lunchtime onwards
Returned home via Moorabbin and Endeavour Hills, got to photograph and film the two supercells that slammed into the southwest and southeast suburbs before the main thundery rainband developed over Melbourne... I am still lost for words at the sight of the storm structure
Supercell number 1 (hit Meredith at about 5:18PM and the Frankston area at about 6:30PM according to the radar) was kinda like a volcanic eruption... HUGE, rocksolid updrafts exploding, before a rotating wall cloud came into view, could easily have dropped a tornado; this storm must've been a good 12,000 metres high, inpressive anvil, and I even spotted a few intracloud lightning flashes
Supercell number 2 (which followed close behind Supercell number 1) had 'black' sprayed all over it (both on radar and on its visual appearance)... I spent about 10 minutes at a lookout in Endeavour Hills watching this cell approach around 7PM, a massive shelf cloud was approaching so quickly I had to dash back to the car, on the way home the sky above me turned pitch dark, lightning activity increases, blustery winds all around, greenage develops as torrential rain and possible hail envelops the landscape, animals going crazy...
Thankfully the storm missed my area, otherwise it could've been a repeat of March 6 2010; anyway, come 7:30PM the thundery rainband develops, bringing spectacular lightning and a very insane downpour, 30mm so far in my gauge
Great to see some amazing supercell action, on top of previous events this season such as September 28 and October 28... fingers crossed for the rest of the season ahead
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