Victoria: Cold Outbreak/Low Pressure. January 17-20 2010

[daviescr]

just skimming me here too Karl, although had a few nice little bursts in the last hour, looks like about 1.1mm. Been a very fruitful day - totalling 37.2 now for whole event, 51.4 for month.

So from one extreme to another - off to Perth in 10 hours to top up the tan.

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Been sitting under the sw sweet spot most of this evening. Showers very heavy times, the gutters have been overflowing every 15 or minutes or so when a dumping comes through. Quiet for the first time in a while. Very soggy atm, some nice warm weather now would be perfect since it is summer...

[Jake Smethurst]

Hey Beatrix Kiddo. Do you have any idea on your rainfall total mate?

[Blackee]

Was absolutely belting down around 10ish when I was at Indoor Cricket (local).

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Power Storm,

24mm since yesterday. Although my gauge is damaged at the top so its not collecting all the rain and a lot of it was blowing sideways so maybe a few more on top of that. Pretty much what viewbank is reading. A couple of light showers now but not much in them.

Cheers, B

[Dc449]

TBH im looking forward to the warm weather, This cold weather is no good in summer

[Anthony Violi]

Another couple during the night, now cracked 50 and have recorded 50.6mm for this system. Sensational drop. YTD 56.9. Very handy at this time of year and should, fingers crossed, keep things nice and green until the next hot spell. One more decent follow up event in the next fortnight would spell the end of the fire danger and dodge a massive bullet IMO.

[Rhino]

Well we did get our 10 drops here and that was all. Was never going to be a system for nth areas anyway and good to here alot of places got very good falls. Not looking good for Jan rainfall here but hey, it's summer, things are suppose to be dry and hot are'nt they?

Rhino.

[Dane]

No further rain overnight here as well DJ, so event total was 21mm's. Now 35mm's for the month still 18mm's below average. Looks like a pretty boring week coming up so we may still struggle to reach the monthly average down here.

[Jake Smethurst]

Thanks for that Beatrix Kiddo, you did well mate.

There are a lot of areas across the state that have missed out on good rainfall lately and the fire risk is increasing in those areas, particularly western Victoria. So what we need is a widespread event. Generally cloudy here this morning, but fine, expecting a mild to warm and partly cloudy afternoon here.

[Instability]

Picked up another 11mm to 9am this morning, taking the system to 18mm so far for Burwood, and 22mm MTD. Even put the central heating on this morning

Rog.

[Proteous]

Wind has got a second breath here with gusts to 30 knots. Generally cloudy to overcast and damn cool.

[johnno]

5mm for the event here

[Alexia]

A few little showers yesterday for us and did manage to get 2.5mm rain.

[droughtbreaker]

Still unpleasantly cold. 12C here and gloomy Sc sky with only a few blue patches.

[Jake Smethurst]

2.6mm in the 24 hour period to 9am this morning. Partly cloudy this afternoon with the temp currently at 19 degrees.

[Luken]

Picked up another 11mm to 9am this morning, taking the system to 18mm so far for Burwood, and 22mm MTD. Even put the central heating on this morning

Rog.

22mm YTD? Got to be kidding right?

77mm YTD here in Mitcham, and im only 5km in a straight line from Burwood.... Not saying you are telling porkies Instability, but geeeeeezzzzz that is a huge difference for such a small distance.

[johnno]

Lovely day here today almost feels warm after yesterday got to 22.5c with a gentle SW breeze thats my type of Summer

[Bobman]

45.2mm YTD so far here.

Last year at the same time was a dismal 1.6mm.

[Blackee]

Was home today looking after the 14mth old, so we went for a drive up to Warburton. Nice and damp still this morning, especially around Wandin (very drizzly at 10.30am). Area looking nice and green, looking forward to riding along the Warburton trail this weekend. Decided to not venture up to Donna Buang, instead went towards East Warburton where I found a nice spot next to the Yarra. Only took a number of photos, so I'll show one. :lol: