Developing low with heat storms and rain: October 16-

[Petros]

16.5mm from overnight drizzle and an afternoon storm here. But a mate got 27mm 6km south of us.

[Petros]

16.5mm from overnight drizzle and an afternoon storm here. But a mate got 27mm 6km south of us.

[Gordon]

Looking at the gauge back home in Truganina, 23 KM directly west, just behind Laverton North. My gauge at home is showing 41.2mm.

That's crazy rain for my spot, does that sound about right? Missing all the action!!!

Every chance, plenty of 30-40mm+ falls in that general area. We're on 31mm here since 7am, and we missed the worst (best?) of it.

[hillybilly]

Awesome event rainwise. For many the best fall in six to nine months. Too late for crops but water for gardens, dam, tanks etc and puts the fire season back a couple of weeks. I reckon the progs nailed it. Lots of storms, but real feature for central was the high moisture levels so always going to be embed dumpers rather than severe storms with hail/strong winds. Some of the rainfall rates were certainly extreme.

Down here for TAS, just a really good solid rain. 25mm here for the week. Very welcome after a few drier weeks.

Week ahead looks a bit dull, then a sharp cold outbreak for late next week.

[Adam38]

A very welcome 25mm in Bacchus Marsh, has been very dry out here!

[QldTwister]

Yeah as forecast right on money impressive event radar last night was impressive.

Widespread 20 to 40mm for much of the state last 24 hours as expected, impressive system lots welcome rain.
North Mallee 25-40mm up there, very impressive why you not 6 weeks ago, big falls up there more than months rain

Melb area 30-50mm big day with 70s and 80s around Geelong big dump there impressive day had it all thick heavy tropical rain with no wind one of my favs

Yeah media beat up of stroms was crazy cause was so nuts in SA and west Vic day before they got so excited classic media.

Back to cold now sucks miss the humidity
Cool weekend, Mon/Tues nice and warm then mild n cool but boring weather.

Rain has being great for so many and so welcome and needed but to late for farmers

[StratoBendigo]

Our total rainfall over the week - 26mm. That'll be it for October.

[snowfall]

34mm for the past couple of days here, taking us up to 49mm MTD.

Definitely tropical-like yesterday with it so warm, humid, and unstable. Had some nice storms come through here in the afternoon with a few good torrential bursts. Would be great if our summers were like this.

[Gordon]

35mm for the week here, 32 of which from 7am yesterday. 52mm mtd.

[QldTwister]

60mm here last 36 hours

Just so wet things going to be very green for awhile around here wish was home to enjoy all the heavy bursts of rain.

Love hot humid stormy tropical systems they are the best more plesae

Cool week looking forward to warmth on Monday and Tuesday

[Australis(Shell3155)]

64mm for the week.
106mm for the month.
Peak hour Friday it sure did come down thick..

[hillybilly]

Awesome event all round. Bit of a quiet week ahead, and quite warm before a decent but fairly dry cold outbreak around Thursday. Some snow on the mountains, though more so in Tasmania.

Btw one thing I had missed on the system was how exceptionally warm the air is on the backside. 26C at Devenport in northern Tasmania with lots of low to mid 20s for northern TAS. The 26C breaks the old October record by more than a degree. That site has been around for thirty years and of course those are the hottest years in a very long time, so that’s a quite remarkable record.

[stevco123]

I captured this in the morning. Is it the rare Kelvin–Helmholtz cloud?

[Australis(Shell3155)]

I’ve photographed these prior,
Nice capture..
Anything with a blue background is nice these days after a winter

[hillybilly]

Guess time for a new thread. Looks pretty good for fronts across TAS, but not a lot for the mainland. Front around late Sunday could have a bit more of a punch.