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Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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15.5mm from yesterday and overnight. Another 2.5mm today from showers. 28mm for the event. Bitterly cold and gusty this morning.

Looks like another 5mm possible here tomorrow.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Very strong winds with the change last night circa 3am - surprised to see only minimal tree damage around the area today.

We've had 4.75mm for this event so far, everything looking nice and green in Nth Central Gippsland now, I see the BOM predicts another 2mm+ for this area tomorrow night/Monday. Thats all we need going into the cold winter months imo. Any more than an inch extra from now on would only create muddy paddocks (read golf courses).
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Few spits today and breezy, sunny am , cloudy pm high temp of 8.3. Gone calm, particularly on a hill facing east so sheltered. Temp currently 2.8, not bad in mid May.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Wintery max of 7.1C :D Scored one hail shower early arvo, but otherwise basically fine. About half a mm in the gauge. Felt like a proper winters day.

Now between fronts so will be a cold most fine few hours ahead of the next change later tomorrow. That one’s followed by swly warm air advection so expect it will turn drizzly with stratus for much of southern Vic.

Decent snowfalls in the alp, though mainly southern spots. Looks like 10cm or so at Lake Mt, Baw Baw and Buller. Reports of flurries to about 700m.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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9.5c as a max here today and currently 5.7c. 0.8mm with a few light showers early this morning and again around mid-afternoon. So not much in it here, as expected, but just adds to the now soggy ground.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Found 0.5mm in my gauge from showers last night, another cold day here with WNW'ly wind, "warm" compared to previous days.

Have a look at the Melb radar images this arvo - a classic display of the "Bay Effect"?

Maybe a few dribs and drabs might make their way over the Strezleckiis for some showers on the roof here tonight?

Jeez the gas lounge room heater has copped an early flogging ahead of this winter. I should buy some shares in Alinta! ....if they weren't yet another overseas company creaming the profits from the typical bills all us Aussies cant avoid.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Decent showers through @4.30am, looks like more to follow.
A few hours at kids footy yesterday Ringwood, and the chills of winter :twisted:
Time to freshen up all the woollies..
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Took a while to reach here but ended up a wet night. 11mm more in the gauge, and still foggy and spitty. Might get a few more mms before it clears. Just on 30mm for the event, which keeps it ticking over, and a little over 80mm MTD. Yesterday’s max was just 8.5C so three days in a row under 10C.

Our place in Walkerville did better with nearly 50mm :D
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Another 5.5mm here, so 17.5mm for the dates and 72mm mtd. 68.5mm is our May average. Starting to get quite wet with boggy patches in the the paddocks and the springs at the bottom of our hill flowing well - always a good sign.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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The final front for this thread arrived last night, great to go to sleep with, and surprised to find 4.25mm in the gauge today, takes this thread tally to a handy 9.25mm.

That takes Maffra to 64.5mm this month, more than our "flat" monthly average of circa 55mm/month (our claim to fame is a long term monthly average, the same for any month of the year, ......I guess that means that we only get dribs and drabs from frontal systems, but decent dumps from ECL's which can occur here in any month of the year).
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Petros wrote: Mon May 17, 2021 5:51 pm The final front for this thread arrived last night, great to go to sleep with, and surprised to find 4.25mm in the gauge today, takes this thread tally to a handy 9.25mm.

That takes Maffra to 64.5mm this month, more than our "flat" monthly average of circa 55mm/month (our claim to fame is a long term monthly average, the same for any month of the year, ......I guess that means that we only get dribs and drabs from frontal systems, but decent dumps from ECL's which can occur here in any month of the year).
Tis funny how flat the rainfall distribution is for a lot of Vic, split between lots of frequent but feeble frontal events through winter, and rare but heavier summer events. Melbourne used to have a most odd semiannual cycle with slight peaks in autumn and spring, when the bay is warmer than Bass Strait and occasionally southerly systems give good bay events (these tend to switch off in mid winter as the bay gets colder than Bass Strait).

A wintery one up here with another 0.6mm. Stayed foggy to 2pm, and a chilly max of just 8.9C. The local aws which about 50m lower but on a north facing slope was 2C warmer. This is quite common this time of year with a strong microclimate when the fog, dew and frost burns off patchily across the Nongs.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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We got a bonus 15.5mm overnight Sunday to take us to 43.5mm for the event.

After sticking my neck out last week and saying it was dry for Warragul’s standards, in the space of a week it’s already shifted to soggy under foot.

A few days of sun won’t hurt.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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A drab 9.8C here today. Not much weather to talk about. A sneaky front for Thursday with perhaps a shower or two, then a run of mild to warm and sunny ones. Not going to set any records, though, given we are now in the second half of May.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Well it’s all over in Hobart with 18 degrees today then 18 again tomorrow.
Absolutely nothing but warmth this close to Winter with Hobart staring down the barrel of 18 / 18 / 16 / 16 /16 /19 / 18/18 /19 and then 20 degrees. What hope of any Winter now ?
Possibly the warmest May ? on record following the hottest ever April day on record definitely a worrying pattern emerging .
A new thread ? the continuing Indian Summer :(
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Derwent wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 9:08 pm Well it’s all over in Hobart with 18 degrees today then 18 again tomorrow.
Absolutely nothing but warmth this close to Winter with Hobart staring down the barrel of 18 / 18 / 16 / 16 /16 /19 / 18/18 /19 and then 20 degrees. What hope of any Winter now ?
Possibly the warmest May ? on record following the hottest ever April day on record definitely a worrying pattern emerging .
A new thread ? the continuing Indian Summer :(
Kinda funny as Melbourne’s been very grey so it hasn’t felt so warm despite running about 2C above average :? Not going to drop much looking at the progs.

Little front for tomorrow.

Staring to look like another dud month rain wise away from the coast unless next week throws up something unexpected.
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Re: Wintery blast: May 13-18

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Bizarre weather for Hobart, I wonder if it's the result of some sort of exaggerated Foehn wind effect from more prevalent westerlies/ nor'westerlies?

Here, we're having an autumn with temps close to average (-1 degree below for March, half a degree above for April, and presently 1 degree above for May - but first half of the month); and rainfall tracking above average already - and that's after a distinctly cooler, wetter summer.
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Mild one here yesterday and looks fairly mild today. Maybe a shower or two. We are a long way from our monthly average here, and starting to think we will fall short :(

Guess new thread time for a bit of an Indian Summer, hopefully followed by a cold outbreak. Might also get thundery, not quite your usual last week of autumn weather.

People’s perceptions are interesting. Vic summer was basically right on the long term average - a tiny bit below the 1961-90 average. It felt rather cold and quite miserable here, but that’s because every summer from 2002/03 to 2019/20 was warmer than average. It was a dud pool season for us - covers went on in Feb and basically didn’t come off :? All our tomatoes died on the vine. I reckon everyone up here would think it was an unusually “poor”, but someone prior to 2000 would think it was about normal.
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Squeeze a mm on a cold cloudy day. Bit of fog this arvo.

Now comes the long dry spell.
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hillybilly wrote: Thu May 20, 2021 7:02 am People’s perceptions are interesting. Vic summer was basically right on the long term average - a tiny bit below the 1961-90 average. It felt rather cold and quite miserable here, but that’s because every summer from 2002/03 to 2019/20 was warmer than average. It was a dud pool season for us - covers went on in Feb and basically didn’t come off :? All our tomatoes died on the vine. I reckon everyone up here would think it was an unusually “poor”, but someone prior to 2000 would think it was about normal.
I think if it's the coolest summer for 15 years, you're entitled to think its cool... and in my case at least, to enjoy that fact (I don't like heat and bushfires :)).

Climate change is real, but that doesn't mean we can't note and celebrate low level snowfalls, unusual minimums, etc.
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