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

[dagget]

Intense couple of mins thunder and decent lighting, pretty much all over now though.

[Jake Smethurst]

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

Widespread thunderstorm activity continues across the MELBOURNE region currently. These thunderstorms at this time pose a major flash flooding threat.

URGENT MESSAGE. Two severe thunderstorms are currently being observed on weather radar. The first is currently southeast of POINT WILSON, moving southeast and poses a threat to the communities of MORNINGTON and also possibly FRANKSTON and SOUTH CHANNEL ISLAND. The second severe thunderstorm is northwest of GEELONG, and move southeast ... GEELONG and AVALON are advised of imment threat of this thunderstorm. Large hailstones a very likely in both these thunderstorms and also damaging winds. Flash flooding also.

[Ausmammal]

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[I_Love_Storms]

Not good Onetahuti, I hope they are okay...just a very severe event...we can't dodge mother nature unfortunately!

[mick]

LIghtning is revealing plenty of greenage over the bay, easterly inflow atm. I suspect power will go off at some stage. Pakenham, Cranny going to get belted when it passes me.

[mutley]

120mm and just spent the last 2 hours emptying flooded room under the house. Furniture and kids toys under a foot of water. No more please.

[BERVY]

Just lost power here for about 20 minutes here in Wodonga. There's something about the thunder. Sounds "deeper" than normal if that's possible. Angry looking cell heading our way from the NW over the border.

[Rivergirl]

Wow WB looks like Qld. I'm sorry to hear things are getting worse for you. I certainly hope it will be OK. Glad you are OK Lily. Yes, great job Jake. Wonderful pics everyone. AV that sounds crazy on Ferntree Gully Road and Burwood Highway, they are down the bottom from me.

[Dc449]

Well if the damaged homes are getting the rain im getting now i do really feel sorry for them more.

[mick]

120mm and just spent the last 2 hours emptying flooded room under the house Furniture and kids tous under a foot of water. No more please.

Mouth to mouth will fix that.

Just wondering if anyone has foxtel weather channel and if anything of note is on. Looks like supercell passing Catland.

[calamity]

spare a thought for all us river dwellers..... the SES has just spent a frantic 2 weeks blocking and sandbagging all drains, culverts and channels to stop the water getting to us from the murray river, now the water from this rain cant drain back to the river..... we could have a 'reverse' flood!

and everyones posts are just as amazing as this weather. stay safe

[melsy]

Welcome Bervy

Can see lots of flashes towards the SE, but dead calm here. No rain or wind and really humid again.

The crickets have come out again in force. You would think those little buggers would have drowned by now.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

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

lucky you got that gauge working..

not sure if my gauge is correct only saying 16mm for the day.

[AmaroK]

southern sky lighting up a beauty from morrabin, can here the thunder from here. somewhat impressive.

only drizzle here for now.

[Anthony Violi]

KArl has had 106mm, a broken rain gauge, power outage and shocking flooding on the low side of the street..they are sandbagging the whole area.

[wolfcat]

Flooding at Caulfield

[Desertdust]

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

Widespread thunderstorm activity continues across the MELBOURNE region currently. These thunderstorms at this time pose a major flash flooding threat.

URGENT MESSAGE. Two severe thunderstorms are currently being observed on weather radar. The first is currently southeast of POINT WILSON, moving southeast and poses a threat to the communities of MORNINGTON and also possibly FRANKSTON and SOUTH CHANNEL ISLAND. The second severe thunderstorm is northwest of GEELONG, and move southeast ... GEELONG and AVALON are advised of imment threat of this thunderstorm. Large hailstones a very likely in both these thunderstorms and also damaging winds. Flash flooding also.

Holy crapola that was scary stuff, flangs galore...pleased it's gone

[melsy]

Shell I have only had 29.5mm today.
Think the rain was that heavy at times it missed it all together(if that's possible)

[droughtbreaker]

A bit of lightning and thunder, some heavy rain but now eased back to moderate, quite gusty. Nothing that you wouldn't expect from your average summer thunderstorms here atm, but closer to the bay and out west it is a different story. Glad to be missing the worst of it to be honest but that could change at any moment I guess.

[daviescr]

Not seen a warning like this before.
Finally starting off here now, been in the 'V' all evening here