Extended warm spell and becoming humid - Feb 6 to 24

[Dane]

Mernda up to 48mm's nearly twice as much as my YTD. Anyone live around there.

[occluded]

Came home to constant rumbles of thunder and the odd CC.

9.2mm at Viewbank, 4.4 at Warrandyte but only 1mm here. Still, anything is welcome and the storms to the north are threatening to break through that SE'ly.

Power just cut out for a second and a big thunder roll.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Fingers Crossed we are in the firing line.. NO HAIL PLZ.

James this is what you were waiting for, now fizzing now I dont think.

[Rivergirl]

Just watching to see when I shut down my computer. Soon I think lol

[Geoff]

It's agonising to watch it just sitting there to our north, but it's inching closer now, so I've just been up the ladder clearing a few leaves out of the guttering - just in case it gets here. Was cool watching all the lightning flashing around while I was up there though.

[Geoff]

Getting very dark...

[droughtbreaker]

Similar situation up here but a bit different in that instead of hitting a shield to the south the storms are forming to the north and then sliding just a few km west of here. We are getting constant rumbles and flashes, it is a menacing view all around to the west and north but to the east it doesn't want to get going. Torturous stuff really. We have had 0.5mm here so far. A decent storm tonight would put an end to the horrific dry summer as we only need about 22mm to get the Feb average here.

A lot of CC bolts creating load crackling and rumbling rather than loud flanging Cg bolts. It's dark as guts here too, looks as if it could really open up here any second but at the same time it's still sliding about 5km to the west.

[droughtbreaker]

Serious green in the storms to the SW..... hail?

[Geoff]

Ha! If you want to see a storm shield at work just look at Mt. Dandenong on the last 6 frames of the BOM radar, unbelievable!

[Dc449]

Distant thunder, seeing a few flashes in the distant sky, but not directly here.

[Nick Sykes]

The good news is that storms just keep developing to the north, so if the shield does break at least there should be something to move south.

[occluded]

Must have been a while since I saw Scoresby registering 0.0mm and the outer North East suburbs cleaning up.

42mm at Christmas Hills, 30mm at Kangaroo Ground, 29mm at Mooroolbark.

2.5mm here and getting quiet.

Going boating on the Yarra on Sunday, so I'm hoping for some runoff from the catchments into the Upper Yarra to raise the river level a bit

[johnno]

Interesting the cell SE of Koo wee rup thats the furthest South any cell thats developed Today

[Nick Sykes]

lol johno, just noticed that cell, eyes so fixed on the north. good sign

[droughtbreaker]

Thunder and lightning going off here atm and very menacing looking to the west and SW. Just drops here. Seriously, I though the steering was going to be NW today but it seem to be NNE although signs it might have gone a touch more NW in the last frame. Still ridiculously frustrating.

[James]

plenty of reasonably close thunder but no rain??? maybe things will change in a few hours

[Rhino]

Actually been in a pretty good spot here considering that we have'nt been in a real active area today. Have had 6mm so far, a brilliant hailstorm and plenty of cg's now and even had the power go out for a while. GFS has my area getting more unstable tonight, probably from now on, so will be interesting to see what comes of it. CG fest here at the moment .

Rhino.

[johnno]

I have lightning to mu direct North and my NW from the Macedon cell which seems to me movng SE but the stuff NNE of Melb seems to be moving SSW/SW?

[Geoff]

Well the storm refused to come to us, but we got the most amazing orange glow when the setting sun lit up the cloud...

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[James]

well the storms get close then die get close then die...why is this still happening today?

all gone quiet and still dry, got to be the driest thunderstorms i have ever seen..boronias usually the flash flood capital !

what are conditions like for the rest of the night? all over or still continue as they have today?