April 23-25: stronger front and possible low

Post by **hillybilly** » Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:00 am

Thread does the coming week with a strong front which might might briefly form a low near Tasmania. System looks mild and quite windy initially, but has a nice slot of cold air behind it. It’s not tapping tropical moisture so won’t be a big rain event, but hopefully pretty widespread 10-25mm for TAS, and shower for coastal SA and Victoria. Some snow on the alps as it clears.

Post by **hillybilly** » Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:36 am

Progs dropping the low, but still a sharp front. Unfortunately the faster movement means rain will be less, and mainly confined to the usual wet spots.

Hoping to see at least a few mms here after just 1mm in the past two weeks.

Will usher in a spell of showery westerlies.

snowfall · Post by **snowfall** » Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:55 pm

Big gusty wind change coming through here, packing quite a punch. Up to 5mm so far.

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:43 am

After a mild Tuesday, a much stronger front than I expected. Punched through last night with a big temperature drop and powerful winds. A few branches down, 12mm of rain and now 5C.

81.5mm mtd is way above our 60mm average for April.

snowfall · Post by **snowfall** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:01 am

Stronger here than expected too. 15mm all up. The wind has calmed down a bit and it's even sunny, for now at least.

QldTwister · Post by **QldTwister** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:00 pm

Yesterday was magic 25c so nice out and about, dinner outside in the city last night felt like spring so nice

Then bang front raored through gales heavy rain big temp drop

14mm at home near 150mm MTD crazy wet month now cold and apart from Sunday chilly couple weeks ahead

Sadly inland areas still struggleing for rain and looks to contuine for least next 2 weeks

Postive IOD looking good to feels like it atm and likely to contuine

Pengaz · Post by **Pengaz** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:13 pm

16mm mostly overnight, with a few leftovers so far today.

Very healthy April total building for us now.

Post by **hillybilly** » Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:33 am

Very handy 7mm here. Couple of spots locally got near 15mm, but overall delivered around 5-10mm. Great little system for northeast TAS with a few spots around an inch.

Dusting of snow on Kunanyi and quite a heavy fall on Ben Lomond.

Now back to southwesterly to northwesterly stream weather. A stronger front on Sunday might break the pattern for a period.

Pengaz · Post by **Pengaz** » Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:28 am

Bleak here this morning. Stream showers in our favoured southwesterly flow. Looks like we’ve had about 3mm but expect we’ll add to that.

Post by **hillybilly** » Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:09 am

Will start a new thread for another long stretch of nothing weather. Geez the patterns are stuck atm.