hillybilly wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 6:22 am
Painfully slow system, which is favouring northern parts of central as expected. 4mm here so far. Still expect about an inch here. Clocking up nicely in west central through north central which is long over due.
Also, a final autumn break for parts of the west. Locals in Mildura will be confused with the second proper rain day for the month, after the virtually rainfree January to April
Don’t like the progs for next week. Big highs again
Big high, but seems to move on by next weekend with showery weather showing up? That's not too bad is it?
Nice drop Gordon, right in the sweet spot. MJO May is certainly producing the goods for many. Mildura almost double the May average now as well and Charlton is heading towards 3 times the average rapidly. Ben Nevis and Airey Inlet now have cracked the 50mm +
The upper low is still calling the shots from near the NSW border. Surface to 700 hPa is about to squeeze hard at the edges of the circulation. Big cell already going off just south of Philips Island on that edge in Bass strait. West of Melbourne near Avalon starting to thicken up
Now at 45mm since it started 13 hours ago, no complaints here as can even see the dam filling now.
MTD at 115mm, so maybe on for 120mm or 130mm from May by the end of this round!
Didjman wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 7:36 am
On Doppler, looks like a funnel / waterspout near Avalon Airport??
I could see the slight rotation echo near Lara. Sort of hard to tell if a spout was involved but there was inter-cloud lightning off that cell as it approached land.
Started Raining here at 7.30pm last night and hasnt stopped since, still coming down.
PWS is showing me 45mm's but will check the manual gauge at 9am.
Over 40mm's at Ballarat Airport as well. All time 24 hour record at the Airport is 48mm's (for May)
So getting near that May record.
Belting down now, though probably seems more intense than it actually is due to the wind speed ramping up considerably. Was enjoying the lack of wind overnight, but it's back with a vengeance now.
A little uneasy about possible severe weather incoming (wind and rain). Not sure BOM are entirely across this given how it's playing out so far.
How odd, its warmer here by 1degree than it was yesterday morning. I thought it was meant to be cold? 4.5C now.
16mm here which is good but a long way short of the forecast amount.
Home- "Shepherd's Bush" at Mt Macedon. 870m
Work- "Bolobek" at Macedon. 430m