A line of thunderstorms is approaching from the west and is expected to reach
Geelong at approximately 4:45pm and sweep across Port Phillip, reaching Western
Port at approximately 5:30. Wind gusts in excess of 50 knots are possible just
ahead of and with the thunderstorms.
No further alerts will be issued for this event.
And Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Melbourne Area too.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - MELBOURNE AREA
for DAMAGING WIND, HEAVY RAINFALL and LARGE HAILSTONES
For people in the Port Phillip, Western, Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula and parts of the Mornington Peninsula, Inner and Northern Local Warning Areas.
Issued at 4:21 pm Saturday, 3 January 2015.
The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 4:15 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Ballarat and Winchelsea. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east. They are forecast to affect Geelong City, Lara and Torquay by 4:45 pm and Caulfield, Craigieburn, Footscray, Frankston, Melbourne City, Melton, Preston, Rosebud, St Albans, Sunbury and Werribee by 5:15 pm.
Damaging winds, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and large hailstones are likely.
Wind gusts of 98 km/h recorded at Airey's Inlet and 94 km/h at Mt Gellibrand with this line of storms.
Jake - Senior AWF Forecaster
Feel free to send me a private message if you have any questions.
stevco123 wrote:Our only hope is for it to restrengthen once it crosses the bay, for us east 'burbans. I haute it when it dies like this.
So annoyed.
Yep, same old crap. Any decent storm weakens as it hits the western suburban force field then re-builds as it crosses the bay towards the eastern suburbs.
Caroline Springs, Melbourne's meteorological boredom zone.
Storms continuing to weaken as they approach may not get much at all I think.
BTW City top was 38.2c today old site came in with 38.4c - I got 37.5c so still no 40 this summer yet.
6 mm in about 10 minutes from the first lot here, more to come. Just spent the last little while clearing out gutters. Couldn't start a fire with a flame thrower here now .
Gee what a fizzer of a system so far. Not a drop of rain.
Showers keep approaching and then just dissapait as they get near.
Might not get anything at all from this.
Following the models perfectly atm, i.e. storms over west vic fizzling once they got to central, but now a rain band redeveloping in western and west central. There's not a massive amount with it but it should extend through most of the Melbourne area tonight. Eastern VIC sees less of it.
Only 1.5mm here with the trough c/o a brief heavy shower (massive drops), but no thunder or lightning whatsoever. The change was barely noticeable. Hardly a breath of wind and a steady drop in temp rather than a sudden drop (as is usual with summer trough/fronts). There was only about 20 minutes here late this afternoon where we got anything resembling a strong wind gust.
Is there some kind of force field over the middle of the bay stopping the rain moving any further east? I swear the humidity is awful I'd rather have the heat back!
Double Whopper award winning footy tipper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Raining nicely here in Wyndham Vale. Seems we are on the right side of the rainband. Any rain is welcome in the Arid lands 35km south west of the CBD, cooling down nicely to.
Raining nicely in Mansfield 5am,
Bed room has sat on 30 all day, opened windows at wrong time later afternoon and up to 33,
Dropped down to 29 most of the late night now sitting on 27,
Few rumbles and this smell is divine..
Day wasn't as bad as was expecting.
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