Victoria - Tropical rain event - February 2nd-8th 2011

[nafets]

Melbourne has a huge line of yellow and red headed straight towards it.

CBD ? i reckon north.

[dagget]

Moderate rain and distant rumbles here, rain band seems to be intensifying as it hits the ranges....got a bit heavy now looks like a bit of yellow rain for about 15 mins or so.

Edit: must have a cell passing overhead, thunder now and getting much closer..

[Jake Smethurst]

AWF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE
Please use official warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology for professional services.

URGENT MESSAGE. GEELONG is advised of a severe thunderstorm currently approaching the area from the northwest, tracking southeast. This thunderstorm is capable of producing large hailstones and damaging winds, with flash flooding.

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[wolfcat]

holy crap..... just got home...

trains are rooted... took over an hour to get from Flinders to Caulfield... where the train was terminated...

emptied 78mm out of the gauge... think all of it was from tonights storm...

minor flooding in the sky light...

roads are flooded every where...

[Wilko]

The warm water in the bay is going to assist that line of storms heading towards Mornington

[Duckey]

Just wanted to note..Jake, you are doing an AMAZING job with your warnings!!!

[johnno]

OMG OMG OMG!! Had to pick up my other half from my local station in Ascot vale around 730pm City at that stage dissapeared in the distance then went West along Geelong road towards Sunshine but had to stop in Fottscary on a side street with INSANE rainfall couldn't see more than 50 metres ahead of me never seen anything like it streets were flooding where I was extradoninary!!

[Dc449]

Wow another really close bolt. Thunder was almost instant.

[solcampbell]

AWF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE
Please use official warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology for professional services.

URGENT MESSAGE. GEELONG is advised of a severe thunderstorm currently approaching the area from the northwest, tracking southeast. This thunderstorm is capable of producing large hailstones and damaging winds, with flash flooding.

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Excellent work Jake, didn't see that one coming at all.
Cheers,
Simon

[melsy]

Just wanted to note..Jake, you are doing an AMAZING job with your warnings!!!

Agreed!

[mick]

Got good lightning over the bay now.

Now this is the good part. Today I shipped my camera to Canon in North Ryde to be cleaned in preparation for the airshow, so yall can thank me for the flangs.

[mad*moo73]

Update -

Thunder - lots
Rain - $hitloads

Stay tuned for more informative updates throughout the night!

[I_Love_Storms]

What a night, really unbelievable, these falls are so widespread. I thought it had missed us but I was wrong, looks like we are going to get caned after all. It is exciting and could be annoying at the same time once I have to clean up the house and the yard.

[Lily]

Just wanted to note..Jake, you are doing an AMAZING job with your warnings!!!

Agreed!

ABSOLUTELY! Well done Jake, beautiful work buddy (Please keep it up? lol)

[melsy]

Update -

Thunder - lots
Rain - $hitloads

Stay tuned for more informative updates throughout the night!

LMAO- Keep the updates coming

[Supercellimpact]

Up to 36mm for today 11mm last hour.

[WaterBaby]

That massive bunch of orange /red from renmark is heading straight for us!!!! It's really starting to worry me...


This is a pic from a few hours ago from the huge storm we got. A neighbours cabin for his workers.... roof just blown metres up into trees!!!

[stratospear]

Feels like it's going to rain most of the night. I'm concerned this is going to cause more problems in our rivers.

[Onetahuti]

What a night, really unbelievable, these falls are so widespread. I thought it had missed us but I was wrong, looks like we are going to get caned after all. It is exciting and could be annoying at the same time once I have to clean up the house and the yard.

Was chatting to nephew who lives in Upwey, they have leaks in their house and his mum/my sister who has a home in Upwey as well has had a tree branche/s come down on their verndah, damage unknown.
She is currently working in WA.

[Ausmammal]

86.1mm since 7.30pm
Today 97.28mm looks like i'll double the year total in 1 day.... I'm shocked at that