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

[Rivergirl]

Pictures from tonight here at The Age

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/flood ... 1aga5.html

[Duckey]

The storm's right over us now.....flangs RIGHT overhead but can hardly hear the thunder over the sound of the torrential rain!! Can feel the floor vibrating tho. Lightning flashes are bright white and highlighting amazing cloud structures overhead. This is an Amazing event... but there's going to be a HUGE cleanup tomorrow :

[Ausmammal]

Just cracked the 100mm for the day. Glad i live on a hill. The creek out the back would have to flood 6 mtrs high so no concern here. Everyone else stay safe, good luck and hope it isn't to bad. Hopefully everyone can just enjoy this event without and serious problems.

Dandeong Creek will be in major flood tomorrow I suspect.

The creek i talk about goes down to Birdlands Reserve on McNicol Rd. There are some houses down the end of my street that have the creek running under their driveways so i could only imagine what that will look like down there and if any of them are washed out.

[melsy]

Pictures from tonight here at The Age

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/flood ... 1aga5.html

Jesus. And to think there is so much more to come.

[Andy]

Its nice to see such dynamic weather but its not fun anymore when you have water in your house!

[chillout]

just a sidenote- not that gfs has been great this system but puts the bullseye on eildon next 24 hrs. Wonder how the lake will fair after this & catchments in general, runoff should be ok despite 2-3 recent weeks of warmer weather.

[Duckey]

If the BOM are saying this event is caused by the "tail of Cyclone Anthony"....what is going to happen when we get the tail of Cyclone Yasi???

[eddie]

We now have lots of lightning, thunder and heavy rain here in Ringwood

[Mosaic]

Indeed Andy, the line is rarely broken in Melbourne, i felt that way during the March hailstorm event.

[stratospear]

A good indication of rain so far near Melb:
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[Dc449]

The storm's right over us now.....flangs RIGHT overhead but can hardly hear the thunder over the sound of the torrential rain!! Can feel the floor vibrating tho. Lightning flashes are bright white and highlighting amazing cloud structures overhead. This is an Amazing event... but there's going to be a HUGE cleanup tomorrow :

We may need to wait till Sunday to cleanup.

[Petros]

Dav... fantastic storm charts, never seen em before. Please post them next time when applicable.

Steady heavy-dropped rain has resumed here but this time dead calm. OK NOW ITS TORRENTIAL.
.... then 2 mins later back to the steady Fat drops.

Cant see us getting through tonight with less than 20mm more from here (= 30mm for event if that happens). Fantastic for February.

Lake Glenmaggie is 87% full atm, heaps of campers/skiers here over Summer and now its a Monty that it will spill again (Licola had 20+mm last night before 9am and this rain). The drought is indeed broken, and now we can also include parched old Gippy!!!!!!!!!!!

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Lily I think this is what made your roof leak...!
Looks pretty green to me, so the green and hail Theory.?

[chillout]

front between ballan and blackwood heading toward melton and sunbury should keep pmping in the rain soon

[johnno]

Dav... fantastic storm charts, never seen em before. Please post them next time when applicable.

Steady heavy-dropped rain has resumed here but this time dead calm. OK NOW ITS TORRENTIAL.
.... then 2 mins later back to the steady Fat drops.

Cant see us getting through tonight with less than 20mm more from here (= 30mm for event if that happens). Fantastic for February.

Lake Glenmaggie is 87% full atm, heaps of campers/skiers here over Summer and now its a Monty that it will spill again (Licola had 20+mm last night before 9am and this rain). The drought is indeed broken, and now we can also include parched old Gippy!!!!!!!!!!!

We Told You Petros this would be a good event for you guys down there a week ago glad its coming to fruitation there

[Jake Smethurst]

Ryan, I would be posting on Twitter, except I currently don't have the details to gain access with the AWF. I will shortly though. Good idea mate. I will be posting them both here and on twitter.

[apocalypse]

Imagine how much of shock this would have come to many Melburnians! I'm sure that yesterday the Bureau had either 1-5mm or 5-10mm for today.

[Lily]

LOL Shell! Lots of flashing going on to the north of us, over Bayswater/Ringwood direction, some big booms of thunder in the distance too.

Glad Gippy's getting some

[Madmel]

LOL! nah I will tend to go with "other sources" for my main event forcast. More accurate

Tell you what! What a horrible night for Chinese New Year celebrations!

[melsy]

It's constant Lily. Every couple of seconds. My dog is going ballistic