Horrible wind here at the moment, gusting to 60 km/h. Really noticed on the weekend how everything is drying out so quickly. The strong winds and lack of rainfall over the past couple of weeks has sucked a lot of moisture from the ground. Only 0.4mm here this month so far and I’m not expecting much this week. Models aren’t giving a lot of confidence for the weekend but are still showing up some rainfall at least.
We reached 19.4c here today - that’s our warmest day since 24th April.
It is VERY windy out there winds roaring through the trees def be some damage overnight just constant and some massive gusts and bursts still 20c too nice out but warm one for sleeping
Lots off 80km/h gusts in the burbs, impressive for the middle of the night
The dry windy weather rolls on
South and mount Vic will get some rain on the weekend nothing for the inland or very little sadly.
No shortage of wind this morning. Oh well, will yield a few weeks of fire wood
No real let up to mid arvo, when the change pushes through with lots of virga and perhaps a bit of rain. Turning in to a pretty crappy spring in Vic atm
hillybilly wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:10 am
Turning in to a pretty crappy spring in Vic atm
I remember in past good storm years - things did not really get cranking till around mid October. Having said that, current climate drivers are taking their time manifesting!
The filth is still around this morning although has dropped ever so slightly in comparison to last night's crap.
Locally bins are blown over everywhere (bin morning here), there's a few branches down, and over 200 SES callouts across Melbourne.
You said it HB, what a crappy start to spring!
Caroline Springs, Melbourne's meteorological boredom zone.
Definitely sounds like it is a lot more worse north of here (Cranbourne). My highest gust was 54km/h last night but has been very calm-ish since i woke up at 6am. Some gusts, but nothing like other areas.
Reports that a bushfire started overnight near Ballarat. The cause is believed to be an escaped private land burn off.
Which idiot would even consider lighting a fire in these conditions!
Caroline Springs, Melbourne's meteorological boredom zone.
Skywalker wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:44 am
The fire season has started already!
Reports that a bushfire started overnight near Ballarat. The cause is believed to be an escaped private land burn off.
Which idiot would even consider lighting a fire in these conditions!
To be fair it's only early September and about 2 months away from fire restrictions. It just goes to show how dry everything is. So much for La-Nina and -ve IOD and above average rain this winter.... NOT! The latter is zero at present, so forecasts of a strong -ve IOD aren't coming to fruition.