Victoria: Low pressure system. March 4th-10th 2010

[I_Love_Storms]

This massive rain band is moving quite quickly now. I doubt it will go for the whole night. I think we can expect a bit of a break in between another band or two. Hope to wake up to at least 50mm hopefully more like 100mm haha

[salsbells69]

There seems to be more brewing up benalla way according to the radar!

[Nick Sykes]

Looks like lasting for many hours, keeps streaming in from the NE, will only die off I guess when the upper low/low starts moving south and drags everything with it.

[WriteOwl]

Cicadas going mental outside!! Rain has all but stopped for now, was very heavy before. If that was the last storm of the season then count me happy!

Ditto Cicadas! Very noisy here.

[droughtbreaker]

This is very, very big. Nostalgic really, takes me back to the 80s and 90s when I was at primary school and high school and we used to get rain like this covering most of the state and continuing all night and most of the following day at times.

Not getting the best of it here but still fantastic. Around 13mm in the last couple of hours.

[I_Love_Storms]

Thunder from the EAST!!!!

Very tropical radar, looks like Cairns.

[Madmel]

Well that was mental and insane! So many strike so close to home Scored about 27mm and still falling. Managed a few photgraphs so I will try and get them up tomorrow.

[Dane]

Some parts of Melbourne have had 20mm or more from these decaying thunderstorms but down here no thunder and only 2mm, just light rain ATM. System total now 18mm's.

[Duckey]

[quote="I_Love_Storms"]Thunder from the EAST!!!!

I thought I heard it too...but it was just another plane going over. Looks like they have diverted them over the Eastern Suburbs for once

[I_Love_Storms]

Ah damn, it really did sound like thunder though...

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Got thumped here by that thundery rain, gutters overflowing, water tanks overflowing thank god it slowed down a bit. Spent a good 15 minutes out there sweeping water away from the house. Dropped around 20mm in about a half hour but heaps of it was sideways and not measured. Funny thing was the wind gusts and rain were coming from the west..

[Scott Lawrance]

This absolutely ensures a green March! Remember all those miserable years where it was a dust bowl until the end of April? This is how an Autumn should be - right on cue the first week of March.

[WriteOwl]

Got thumped here by that thundery rain, gutters overflowing, water tanks overflowing thank god it slowed down a bit. Spent a good 15 minutes out there sweeping water away from the house. Dropped around 20mm in about a half hour but heaps of it was sideways and not measured. Funny thing was the wind gusts and rain were coming from the west..

Sounds like it's swirling round.

[Dc449]

No wind but Rain ofcourse.. No more Thunder

[dagget]

Almost it for us, looks like this rain band is going to go too far east ...

[Anthony Violi]

Still plenty more rain regenerating behind this lot, low now is in NW Vic almost and hopefully may track slowly towards us in the morning, giving us some good wrap around bands hopefully..

[Petros]

for guys in the east complaining bout missing out, watch the vic wide radar loop, there is still moderate rain out to the east that could well hook around and get us, not saying we'll get storms, but could still get a couple of mm out of this.

Still trawling through the posts trying to catch up but could go past this one. I challenge you Amarok to quote even one eastern Vic post that complains about missing out!
We have had consistent light but steady rain for 2 hours now, now wind, baro steady at 1011 hPa.

[Riz The Weather Wiz]

Hey everybody!! What a fantastic event far!! The thundery rainband that has just come through was very intense, wind gusts were huge and rain horizontal and very heavy!! I have had 12.2mms so far from that band and that will build with the next moderate band coming down from the north. Takes me to 32.8mm's for month which is fantastic! Am very excited to see further bands of rain coming down from the border and are moving very quickly by the looks of it! Was at Yarra Blvd today watching the build up from the N/NE and it looked very promising and it hasn't dissapointed!! BRING ON MORE RAIN AND A VERY STORMY MARCH!!!

[AUSSKY]

We went up to the area just west of Echuca today and watched a mid level storm absolutely explode into a vast rain (torrential area) with lightning, the likes of which we haven't heard before - wasn't just growling - it was staccato!! - this on top of all the rain the area got yesterday.... there was a lot of debris on a number of places on the roads up through the west of Bendigo from yesterday's storms where some hills in the Box-Ironbark country of the region had streams cut into the sides of hills and the tree litter washed down onto the roads!! Not many photos today because it's hard to get anything too photogenic when you're in a rain core but got a couple of shots that give you an idea of just how fast an outflow boundary can develop.

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..and a brilliant rainbow thanks to Clyve's speed at spotting things out of the ordinary!

[Proteous]

20.3/20.3/100%, nearly 6mm for the day so far after a few rumbles earlier in the day. Raining light to moderately atm and should continue for a few hours yet. The vegetation is loving it.