The Australian Weather Forum

A few drops of rain evaporating as they hit the ground.

Even the cloud isn't helping

Please rain. Please.

First "change" has gone through here, ironically it's hotter now than before it hit. Maybe 4 drops of rain. Feels a lot more humid?

Noticed Aireys Inlet dropped from 31 to 23 then back to 30.

Dead still now, give the fireys half a chance before the main temp/wind change hits.

Reached 33C here. Clouded over so hoping we don’t get any higher. The cloud has lightened the winds, and given a few spots.

Drove up from Walkerville about 1pm and the Bunyip for was huge. Whole eastern sky full with burning. Looked to be well into farm land and rural living areas which will make it very bad for asset loss.

Another terrible fire near Lincola which has put out a pyrcumulonimus with top above 8km. That’s now producing lightning That makes four large fires all with emergency warnings out for areas east of Melbourne.

Btw Dover came on at 40.1C so the furtherest south we’ve ever seen 40C OZ. There’s only islands further south before you hit the Antarctic

Change just gone through Geelong. Is surging up the bay. Winds are gusty with it which will not be good when it hits the fire grounds

Dry change.

Strong front still coming through late Tuesday. Progs wound back rain a bit. Northwest will miss out. Looks like southern and northeast, and thinking best falls around Otways, South Gippsland and Yarra Ranges. Should see 20mm here, fingers crossed. So need it garden and forests here are scorched.

Change proper has hit the peninsula, wind has picked up substantially, not going to help the fireys.

Anyone north east of any fire just get out and stay safe.

93ben wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:51 am That fire in Bunyip is nasty. Already some houses gone now. Will there be enough rain tonight when the change comes through to help put these fires out?

Brother lives on 40 acres in Jindivik, have not spoken to him since early morning. They moved their small cattle herd this morning and intend to stay with pumps ready. Currently some spot fires in area. This fire is again burning areas destroyed on Black Saturday, they lost everything but the house then. Sadly the dry wind change may just expand the fire area.

That fire lools to have grown a fair bit the lasy hour from my observations from here. Wind change will be nasty

Had a birds eye view of that Bunyip fire on the way back from the island. Scary stuff indeed. Came back via the South Gippy instead of our usual Koo Wee Rup Rd route. Wasn't taking any chances.

Change has finally arrived so much cooler out there now.

Attention now turns towards another week of mainly dry conditions here in the desert.
Btw HB, I love the new definition of a "strong cold front". Once again bugger all expected for this neck of the woods.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/when ... her/529365
Bit more info re the Pyrocumulis

Cooler and misty in FC this morning. Trace in the gauge.

Guess time for a new thread for the trough and front. Still looks ok for south and east though totals have wound back

As a point of interest adding to yesterday's post brother at Jindivik said they were counting embers falling literally as 'x' number per sq metre, thankfully all that fell on his land were dead, nearest spot fire to start was 100 metres over rear fence line. Commented that media coverage as far as they were concerned was useless, wrong/out of time or simply inaccurate.