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- by Lighthouse
- Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:04 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Very hot start to February: Feb 1-
- Replies: 85
- Views: 3851
Crikey HB, a bushfire has closed the Overland Track. As someone who has walked it a couple of times I would not think it was possible but there you go. I’m not sure anywhere in the bush is going to be safe from bushfires in the years ahead.
- by Lighthouse
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:14 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Very hot start to February: Feb 1-
- Replies: 85
- Views: 3851
While Aireys Inlet has only had 0.4mm this evening there has been some desperately needed rain in parts of the Otways tonight. Benwerrin, about 25km north west of us, where a lightning strike started a fire overnight, has thus far had 37mm. Talk about saved by the bell. Most of the fires in the ...
- by Lighthouse
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:49 am
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Very hot start to February: Feb 1-
- Replies: 85
- Views: 3851
Just 4mm at Aireys Inlet, pretty much a total bust again for the Otways and south west coast, Frightening amounts of lightning, see if that results in anything fire wise today. Pretty much rained in the areas it has in the past two years and missed everywhere else.
- by Lighthouse
- Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:53 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Very hot start to February: Feb 1-
- Replies: 85
- Views: 3851
Sitting on the beach at Fairhaven this evening watching huge bolts of lightning hit the Otways behind Lorne. Going to be a very watchful 48 hours down this way. Getting a bit of rain now but most of it seems to be bypassing us to date. Hopefully that rain out west can make it here.
- by Lighthouse
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:55 am
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Very hot start to February: Feb 1-
- Replies: 85
- Views: 3851
Thundery could be good, more humidity, but also bad, re potential lightning. Sometimes Aireys Inlet is spared from these heat events by sea breezes but the trouble is you don’t really know until the day itself. The Otways are so dry that if a fire does start then the reality is that nothing will ...
- by Lighthouse
- Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:07 am
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Becoming stinking hot ahead of a gusty change: January 25-27
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1365
Heat kills more than 500,000 people across the world every year and the number of elderly people dying each year from heat related illnesses or weather events is, according to WHO, growing exponentially. I too get frustrated at the media’s reporting of global warming, they generally play it down or ...
- by Lighthouse
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:40 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Vic Trough with possible showers and storms Jan 9-12
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4361
I agree, the difference in the climate between east and west central is the widest disparity in any forecast district. Nothing of note in Fairhaven again today and the rainfall forecast looks non-existent. Cape Otway in the south-west had their driest year on record in 2024. Is this just cyclical or ...
- by Lighthouse
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:29 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Vic Trough with possible showers and storms Jan 9-12
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4361
Yes, really don’t know what’s happening with the weather. Two years of way below average rainfall and this year looks like continuing the trend. This is despite so many traditional climate drivers seemingly being neutral or wet. Farmers in SA and western Victoria are really struggling, as are the ...
- by Lighthouse
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 3:27 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Vic Trough with possible showers and storms Jan 9-12
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4361
As expected a complete bust for south west Victoria, the Wimmera, Grampians and Surf Coast. Good to see some rain around Ballarat. This weather pattern is certainly stuck, just keeps raining in a line through Melbourne and the south east suburbs. Lucky you. At least we’ve had a nice respite from the ...
- by Lighthouse
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:11 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Vic Trough with possible showers and storms Jan 9-12
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4361
Struggling to see much for Western Victoria and the Surf Coast, just more heat. Running 3.2C above average for month after two previous months of above 2.5C daytime averages. Humidity will temper fire danger next week but the bush just gets drier. Nearing the halfway mark of summer, when will these ...
- by Lighthouse
- Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: Victoria / Tasmania
- Topic: Warming up for a hot week: 11 December -
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4581
We hit 42.2 at Aireys Inlet today,Walpeup in the Mallee topped 47. Basically the entire Western half of the state is very dry after 18 months of lower than average rainfall and higher than average minimum and maximum temperatures. Unless the patterns change, it’s a potentially very dangerous ...