Deep ECL with heavy rain, gales, storm surge and some snow

Onetahuti · Post by **Onetahuti** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:43 pm

35mm since midnight with more to come.

Post by **hillybilly** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:21 am

Another 20mm or so for us down in southern Tasmania. That makes it 50mm the last two days. Hilly spots widely topping 100mm, while the flats typically about half that. Peak falls would be around 150mm.

Great dam filling event, after very little runoff since October last year. Couple of small dams on our proerpty have completely filled

Real mixed bag for Victoria, but typical wet spots around Baw Baw and the Dandenongs coming in with big totals. Looks like a heap of rain overnight at Baw Baw and Lake Mt, further north managed to stay in the negatives.

Was on the Spirit last night, and waves were going completely over the front. Quite exciting really

must have been the odd set north of 10m. Lying in bed had the feeling of weightlessness a few times

Slowly clearing for everyone now, though TAS had two more shots with a trough in the easterlies later today and a cold air tomorrow.

Onetahuti · Post by **Onetahuti** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:32 am

Certainly 'wet', 47mm yesterday and 3mm since midnight by PWS, 51 and 52mm in manual gauges.

StratoBendigo · Post by **StratoBendigo** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:55 am

Only 0.4mm here. Warming up now with sub-tropical air advected in from the Southeast (yet again). Our max temps this month are nearly 2c above average. Could get close to our hottest July for daily max temp mean.

Only Thursday and Friday might have below average temps in the next week for us. I suspect the SST anomalies to our South are having a significant effect.

snowfall · Post by **snowfall** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 8:31 am

20mm here over the past 24 hours. Nowhere near as much as eastern areas, but a decent drop nonetheless. The wind has also been a feature, especially yesterday and overnight, with big gusts and sideways rain at times.

Currently fog and a mild 9c. Should see some showers and/or drizzle at times today.

Pengaz · Post by **Pengaz** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:11 am

An even 50mm for us here. Was wild for a few hours last night with horizontal rain and strong gusts. Very wet around here now.

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:23 am

Good to see so many 'proper' falls.

We seem to be in a bit of rain hole even locally, with plenty of nearby sites recording 20-35mm to 9am, but just 16mm here to add to 4mm yesterday. Sort of reading that makes me doubt my Nylex

hillybilly wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:21 am Was on the Spirit last night, and waves were going completely over the front. Quite exciting really must have been the odd set north of 10m. Lying in bed had the feeling of weightlessness a few times

Yikes! Obviously better sea legs than mine.

stevco123 · Post by **stevco123** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 10:41 am

StratoBendigo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:55 am Only 0.4mm here. Warming up now with sub-tropical air advected in from the Southeast (yet again). Our max temps this month are nearly 2c above average. Could get close to our hottest July for daily max temp mean.

Only Thursday and Friday might have below average temps in the next week for us. I suspect the SST anomalies to our South are having a significant effect.

Not doubting you, but average Max Bendigo temp for July is 12.7, and the average so far in 2023 is 13.7. What am i missing? Or are referring to your own local specific area?Microclimates can be an interesting thing

Australis(Shell3155) · Tue Jul 16, 2024 11:43 am

My local WS that I use and love… “offline” Grr…

The wettest
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/ ... -21/weekly

164 for 2 days….

Wilko · Post by **Wilko** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 12:27 pm

31mm prev 7mm + 5mm for the event
Total 43mm

Quasar217 · Post by **Quasar217** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:34 pm

Exactly 50mm for this event, and 88mm in the past 8 days. Very wet out there.

Post by **hillybilly** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:04 pm

Got a southeasterly stream set up over Tasmania this evening with heavy showers. Rounding out the event nicely. Had another 9mm so far, so about 60mm for the event now. Very mild moist air, but cools sharply tomorrow with snow levels dropping to about 800m here.

Btw I had missed a few records yesterday on northern Tasmania thanks to foehn winds and a warm airmass.
Devonport 17.6c, 0.4c above 2020 record.
Low Head 16.1c, 0.2c above 2001 record.
Wynyard today reached 17.7C which would have been a record of it wasn’t for a record 17.9C last week.

Ironically cold much further north with a bit of snow as far north as Guyra.

Post by **hillybilly** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 6:57 am

Event keeps giving four TAS. Just shy of 20mm in the gauge for the past 24 hours, making over 70mm for the event, and over 100mm since it all started Tuesday last week. Thats $600 of free water in the tanks

Peak falls approaching 300mm around the top of Kunanyi. Wettest parts of Hobart around 150mm. Really needed this one.

Starting to clear now and colder air is moving in. Back to more classical westerly weather from Friday.

StratoBendigo · Post by **StratoBendigo** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:48 am

stevco123 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 10:41 am
StratoBendigo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:55 am Only 0.4mm here. Warming up now with sub-tropical air advected in from the Southeast (yet again). Our max temps this month are nearly 2c above average. Could get close to our hottest July for daily max temp mean.

Only Thursday and Friday might have below average temps in the next week for us. I suspect the SST anomalies to our South are having a significant effect.
Not doubting you, but average Max Bendigo temp for July is 12.7, and the average so far in 2023 is 13.7. What am i missing? Or are referring to your own local specific area?Microclimates can be an interesting thing

Our pre-1990 July Mean Max was 12.0c.

This morning was 4c min, but today looks like it'll get to around 15c. Again, very hot for mid-July.

Warm at the start of next week too. Where is winter?

StratoBendigo · Post by **StratoBendigo** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:51 am

For the record, June 2024 was typical of winter, even cooler than long term average. August could be very interesting given what appears to be some significant disturbances appearing in the stratosphere above Antarctica atm. Who knows?

Post by **hillybilly** » Thu Jul 18, 2024 7:00 am

Few showers around here the last 24 hours, but not much in the gauges. Has turned quite icy. Saw some sleet yesterday at just 300m, and snow was hanging low in the clouds, would guess falling to about 600 to 700m. Had a chilly max of just 9.3C at our place.

New systems already inbound. Very vigorous series of fronts in a broad westerly air stream.

Quasar217 · Post by **Quasar217** » Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:17 am

...and it just doesn't stop! Rain on 10 of the last 11 days here, pouring again this morning, we've hit 100mm for the month already.

StratoBendigo · Post by **StratoBendigo** » Thu Jul 18, 2024 12:32 pm

Proper cold day today. Hasn't got above 10c yet, and currently 8c. Now this is real July weather - love it!

Macedonian · Post by **Macedonian** » Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:12 pm

Yep, freezing. Just as cold today as earlier in the week when the polar thing came through.
1.2°min to only 4.6° max for me. Third day this week with a max in the 4s

Petros · Post by **Petros** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:31 pm

17mm and a very cold windy Monday 10.5C for Maffra for this thread.