Well, fantastic for here. Nothing but very heavy rain, completely torrential at times, a fair bit of thunder but no close strikes or flangs, just a tiny bit of small hail and a few relatively minor gusts. No damage yet so that is great.
Looking out the window at the gauge with binoculars (not game to go out even though it has eased for now) and it looks like about 20mm so far.
35mm in about 20 mins here, little bit of hail but plenty of rain, driveway, gutters and drains all flooded, thunder lightning the works, heavy rain now with a few rumbles..
We have just had winds at 100km/h + combined with 20-30mm hail (photos later). I heard something go smash in the house but can't find what it was, but the roof is leaking for the first time ever.
WORST STORM OF MY LIFE ABOSOUTLEY TERRIFYING HERE!!!!! DAMAGING HAIL FOR 15 MINS!!!! LEAKS IN MY ROOF MY BACKYWARD IS ALL WHITE 4 INCHES DEEP LAWNS ALL WHITE 5 TO 10C COIN SIZE HAIL ROUGHLY 60-70MM IN 40MINS MY ELDERLY PARENTS WERE FREAKING OUT. EAISLY THE MOST WORST AND TERRIFYIGN STORM OF MY LIFE!!!!
Activity starting to develop widespread across central regions now and beginning in Gippsland as well. Some cells starting to pop up across the Wimmera and Western districts which have missed out so far today and yesterday!
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My attempt of making a panorama LOL This all happened infront of me which was so lucky. It actually got scary and at one point the wind was so heavy and destructive and then the hail rolled in.
Sounds like we dodged a bullet with this one , more on its way for us from the NW but the sky is much lighter now. I was too busy tidying up to pay much attention to the arrival of this thing but in retrospect, when you need to turn on all the lights inside to see what you are doing and the humidity get to around 95 percent something is certainly coming
That monster just missed to our south here, but we witnessed clear rotation and a funnel dropped above us as it approached, lasting 30-40 seconds.
Unfortunately missed the photo opp.
What a ripper!
Looking forward to the rest of the meal!
BTW - hardly got more than a few spits...amazing.
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