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So been bed-ridden all day due to heat fatigue & exhaustion due to my fatigue related illness, I go out for my late night jog knowing there were some big cells around but nothing in and around Melbourne & the radar said likewise. As I'm starting my jog, I realise there's frequent lightning ...

The storm is going through Poowong.

I went driving all over the place this afternoon and all I had to do was wait. Yet again, I think this is the 7-8th storm to hit after sunset in the last couple of months. :P That was just epically EPIC. It looked like a mothership. I saw stars, the leading edge of the mothership, 50 minute flangfes...

feels like a lot of electricity in the air tonight..not really showing up on the radar seems to be some development around ballarat..could be an interesting night..red wine in hand I have seen the most amazing crawlers, that are lighting up the sky and are not showing up on the radar. The thunder i...

I have just seen a couple of crawlers, the shy was clear about 30 minutes ago, suddenly a roll of thunder. Another crawler has just flashed past.

It has just exploded across the bay. Too high or too low on the map. The law of averages would dictate that it should be at the right height on the map.

Small cell just bobbed up over Geelong, just received an SMS from my girlfriend that lives there. It was so loud that she thought a car had hit her house. It was just after sunset and then BANG! It grew out of nothing!

I watched the radar for most of the day, the storm's path was Buninyong, Ballan, Macedon, Gisborne, Wallan, Whittlesea, Hurstbridge, Kinglake, Healsville then breaks open again. It is funny as it looks like it is going around the border of the Central district. This is a funny path as it usually Nor...

Roll on tomorrow, as I feel that is it for the day.

Hoping the Xmas cheer will get rid of the sea breeze not to push North.

Went for a drive through Eltham, Yarra Glen, Kangaroo Ground and Panton Hill saw nothing but I do have some fantastic photos of the most exquisite towers, should have don't this earlier in the day as it is going of die off once the sun sets.

nafets » Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:38 pm wrote:

nafets wrote:Is that thunder? Yes! Matamus clouds above, but no signs on rain on the radar!

I thought I can hear something in Eaglemont/Ivanhoe East. A faint rumble.

It is getting lower on the radar, it is more southerly on the last frame.

I can see the top of the anvils that are traveling easterly. From the North West and South East, it looks like Santa Sleigh!

It is looking very interesting out my way, northeastern Ivanhoe East/Eaglemont. It is just inside the sea breeze convergence aka Storm Forcefield.

I want a hot and stormy Xmas. I have been a good boy and want Santa to bring me one really big one.

There has been a lot of CG action over the past hour, it has been strobing on and off. I know they are from the one action, but there has been more lightning than thunder. It is just starting to rain now. There is some sort of fog or low cloud as planes that normally go overhead are disappearing in/...

I can see a distance flash toward the NW of Ivanhoe East/Balwyn North and planes are going around them not the normal route ESE to NW. They are doing the N to SW.

BigBen » Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:42 pm wrote:

BigBen wrote:Looks like it's smashing Daylesford, with Blackwood and Bacchus Marsh about to cop it.

The line looks amazing on radar, the shield is going to have to be super good to deflect this baby.

Looks like a game of British Bulldogs is going to be played between the Storm and it's Shield.

I_Love_Storms » Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:35 pm wrote:

I_Love_Storms wrote:Not sure why they mntion se subs in particular? But will see. Think the northern subs may be most at risk at this time if that red line keeps strong

Please, it will shut me up for until the next one.

I_Love_Storms » Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:40 pm wrote:

I_Love_Storms wrote:There's a strange wind signature in the cell near clunes

It is heading the opposite direction to the norm over the past few months. It was dropping South but has done a bit of a U-Turn and is now moving East.

the sky here is very overcast and gloomy you would think it is a winters day. Looking at the radar that nasty cell near Ararat looks to be tracking straight for us! It'll die........shields are up. It has more a winter's colour than Summer glow. :P It is more a sponge than a shield. It get to s cer...