Had a good mix today - showers, sleet and hail. Also saw a few flakes mixed in with a heavy shower late this afternoon, but wouldn't count that as snow by any stretch!
12mm all up. We reached a max of 8.5c. Currently 3.5c with the wind chill mostly running below 0. House is nice and warm though, with the wood heater cranked up!
snowfall wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:25 pm
Had a good mix today - showers, sleet and hail. Also saw a few flakes mixed in with a heavy shower late this afternoon, but wouldn't count that as snow by any stretch!
12mm all up. We reached a max of 8.5c. Currently 3.5c with the wind chill mostly running below 0. House is nice and warm though, with the wood heater cranked up!
Wood heater fired up here. That crazy wind storm dropped about ten years of fire wood here, so no shortage for a while
Btw another big surge on the coast. Flooding tonight at Lakes Entrance and again around the bay. That is the second in a week. Will go substantially higher on the weekend, with current guidance showing another 10-20cm possible. That will put the main street at Lake Entrance under water if it happens.
Meanwhile great blizzard in the alps, but the poor resorts are all locked down
King Island... useless at a time like this, blocking any precipitation from getting here. Even the western suburbs that are usually bone dry are getting frequent showers.
No snow for me today even though it was cold enough.
It is annoying to know that it is snowing again along the GDR (towns like Jindabyne, Oberon, Yetholme and Guyra) in NSW for the second time this week but we miss out in VIctoria.
My max today was 4.1C but was down to 1.7C by the afternoon. 0.3C now
Home- "Shepherd's Bush" at Mt Macedon. 870m
Work- "Bolobek" at Macedon. 430m
Dipped to 3.0C here overnight in a decent hail shower. Didn’t spot any sleet or snow, but was close. 12mm in the gauge. Month is ticking along nicely. Mtd is 80mm, and 60mm from this event. Should get to our average of 109mm.
Couple of days break now ahead of a solid system for the weekend.
Reached a Max of 7.6c yestreday with a couple of Hail showers.
got down to 0.0c this morning with a bit of Frost now its up to 5.2c.
Just under 10mm's in the 24 hours to 9am - MTD is 77mm's
Off topic but the scenes coming out of China's flood situation are horrendous. In Zhengzhou which gets about as much rain as Melbourne annually 200mm fell in one hour and 450 in 24 hours.
Hobart continues to be a dry and a few drops towards what is going to be a terrible month total. Can’t wait to retire and move to the northwest coast to get away from the dry weather.
Tassiedave wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:25 pm
Off topic but the scenes coming out of China's flood situation are horrendous. In Zhengzhou which gets about as much rain as Melbourne annually 200mm fell in one hour and 450 in 24 hours.
They get that much during their wet/monsoon season though, so I’m sure they get a far higher frequency of those types of tropical-influenced downpours than Melbourne does.
I used to live in Hong Kong and when the ITCZ crept up during summer the downpours had to be seen to be believed, especially when up to that point you’d lived in “30mm in a day is record-breaking rainfall” Melbourne. The sheer amount of water that comes bucketing out of the sky in monsoon-influenced areas is hard to imagine if you haven’t experienced it, but I recall several days in HK where daily totals of several hundred mms were recorded.