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Series of front with possible cold outbreak: April 8-12

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Re: Series of front with possible cold outbreak: April 8-12

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Bucket loads of cats and dogs..
wasn’t sure if I was hearing wind or rain..
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Just got a couple of cracking coldies in the Nongs with a quick 7mm. MTD is now over 100mm (104mm to be precise :D ). Remarkable gradients across central MTD with just 5mm around parts Melbourne’s northwest to about 110mm in parts of the Dandenongs :o
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10mm in the gauge at Ferny Creek this morning. Nice top up.

Couple of mostly fine days ahead before a sequence of fronts next week.
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Re: Series of front with possible cold outbreak: April 8-12

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0.4mm overnight 7.3mm MTD
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Re: Series of front with possible cold outbreak: April 8-12

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6mm mostly from some nice heavy showers after sunset last night. Great follow up to last weekend.

Cold air out there this morning.

MTD: 46mm
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Mike wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:36 am 0.4mm overnight 7.3mm MTD

Eek, that’s not good :?

Been swly dominated. Couple of strong fronts next week might improve thing, fingers crossed.
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0.8mm overnight here. It has certainly been lean this month around the Macedon Ranges, so not surprised you’re only reporting 7mm MTD Mike. The kind of pattern so far this month - weak cold fronts with little in the way of preceding rain bands - usually tends to result in the best falls occurring further east in onshore air streams. It will no doubt change, but we’re currently sitting on 16.6mm MTD here. Thankfully, it was a wet summer overall, as well as March, and evaporation rates are much lower now, so soil moisture is generally pretty good and it’s green. Actually it has stayed green here since the 2019-2020 summer.

I am hoping that somehow we end up lucky with a negative IOD later this year - it’s currently mixed and a couple of models are going for it, but at least the overall forecast is leaning towards the negative side of neutral at the moment so there’s hope!
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Yeah I think much of SA, northern and western Vic and far western NSW really need a wet Winter Spring and neg IOD only real way they can get wet these days.

Apart from the dandys and parts of Gippy it's been a dry month and the Mallee has had nothing for near 2 months and NE Vic for about 6 weeks or so and eastern SA pretty much last few months

So hopefully can get some solid tropical connections in the coming moths with fronts and it not another southern and mountain winter were the cosat floods but on and north of the divide dust storms frost and failed crops are the norm

Think the dry will continue into May as the the highs sit south of perth and the fronts just clip southern Vic

Western tassie looking very wet in coming weeks
Bring on the heat and stroms
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Only circa 15mm rain here in Nth Central Gippsland past 3 weeks, fairways have dried out at Royal Maffra. Greens needing irrigation past week.

And yep, all eyes on any hint of a -ve IOD to establish sometime this year.
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Chilly 11C for a max in FC under cloudy skies. Might see the odd shower tomorrow as a weak trough passes through.

Tuesday’s front looking strong, but not a great infeed again. More a showery system, though will add up near the coast and ranges. More snow on the alps.

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Clear skies here atm and 8c. Hope it stays clear, so I can photograph "The Emu" tonight around midnight :D
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Calm April weather. Love it :)

Meanwhile in Europe, they have been battling topsy-turvy weather the past month. I just read on CNN earlier that 80% of vineyards in France have been lost due to extended periods of extreme cold in early to mid April which looks likely to continue for now. Even the warmer parts of the south have been falling to -5 degrees. And this was all after a record heat event a few weeks earlier.

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stevco123 wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:45 pm Calm April weather. Love it :)

Meanwhile in Europe, they have been battling topsy-turvy weather the past month. I just read on CNN earlier that 80% of vineyards in France have been lost due to extended periods of extreme cold in early to mid April which looks likely to continue for now. Even the warmer parts of the south have been falling to -5 degrees. And this was all after a record heat event a few weeks earlier.

Mother nature doing her thing!
Has been crazy in the NH. Weather patterns completely stuck. Middle East, Africa and Asia have seen repeated record heat, western North America intense and in places record drought, and Europe and eastern North America jumping from extreme cold to extreme warmth.

If the patterns continues they are headed for an awful summer of extremes :?

Our weather is cool a dull. Not unexpected for mid autumn ;)
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