Victoria: Trough - showers/rain/storms - 6th-10th November

[Jake Smethurst]

Quite an amazing event for most areas of the state, with the main band of thunderstorms now contracting over eastern districts. A large number of severe weather reports flooding into the BoM too, and good to see them relatively fine with the issuing of the warnings today! Periods of heavy rain should filter into Melbourne for the next little while now from the northwest.

[dagget]

LIghtning and thunder all around to our south and east, looks like rain is gaining strenght as it passes round the mountain.

[TheFishmanAU]

That was great, the build up was fantastic.

The lightning was biblical.

The only thing missing was frequency of lightning.

[Pane]

G'day

Well a little disappointed with missing the main show of lightning but stoked with the rainfall, 28.5 in an hour.

If the picture above is what I can expect in the riverena bring it on.

I hope Eildon can get some rain!

Cheers

[Meso]

Great photos everyone! Lots of nice shelf clouds.!

Steve, good to see you back on the horse! And in style too, thats a cracker! Wish I could get some coastal storm shots...

Apocalypse, that looks mean as! Nice catch with the hungry sign lol

My little chase was pretty uneventful, went out past Inglewood and all I could find was a structureless mess, nothing like the photos being posted here. Had storms merging from the north and south of me and I think that pretty much killed all the structure and features. Should have gone further north in hindsight, but oh well.

Got one shot to salvage the trip. Nothing special and a pretty boring landscape, but always good to capture a bolt!

[Australis(Shell3155)]

I noticed that the LIGHTENING was PINK also. and I was on the diet ginger beer with Soda.

Bucketed down but happy to have missed the earlier stuff that went over Dandenong.


Ah thats one Great PINK bolt...

[Geoff]

Just slopped through the inch of water sitting on our back lawn to the manual gague, 22mm!! Impressive, considering it was only in about 1/2 an hour

Yep, 22mm for me too from that one. Had to get up the ladder to unblock the downpipe into the tank, blocked with silver birch seeds.
Looks like another 2 hours of solid rain to come now, then on and off for the rest of the night.
Bit hard on yourself there Meso, it's a great capture, nice pink tinge to that one too.

[Lily]

At least you got one, Meso Nice work! Love the timelapses Greensyboy, you had a good vantage point there. Steve, as always, brilliant shot! SRH, great stuff (you don't hear the language if you turn it down rofl!!!). I'm having trouble keeping up with all the great posts and photos/videos - I'm watching/looking at them all, as I'm sure many others are, it's just hard keeping up when the board's this busy. But a big THANKYOU to everyone for your contributions, been a great day

Eildon's looked to have missed the bulk of the rain so far.

[TheFishmanAU]

It took 18 months for us to get one like that, I'm hoping we can back up quicker this time and get another one like that before Australia Day.

[Duckey]

Yep, Meso's lightning pic clearly shows the pink! Phew, means I don't have to give up the red just quite yet....

[cim85]

Still raining heavily here with rumbles and a nice lightshow tracking slightly sth of my location. Not as intense as the first line that came through just over an hour ago - no horizontal hail slapping the windows this time around.

[wolfcat]

and more of the "pink" lightning

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[Meso]

Yep, Meso's lightning pic clearly shows the pink! Phew, means I don't have to give up the red just quite yet....

Haha, I actually thought to myself while I was out that the lightning had quite a bit of color to it. Very bright too some of the strikes.

[AUSSKY]

Clyve & I went chasing (he left home well before I made my excduses and finally escaped from work). We've got lots of photos of some pretty interesting storms up around Ballarat, Carisbrook area...but we have a power cut so you'll have to wait till the power's back on befoe we can download the photos for you - a few are up on Facebook..Clyve got lots of trees down, lots of damage between Maryborough and Newstead, roads blocked, and a probable tornado near the Grampians.....

I got lots of pics from the outside of the storms and some pretty good panoramas......currently lightning to our north. 16mm in Trentham, no power since 7pm.

Clyve & Jane

[Jake Smethurst]

Just looking at my AWS, we managed a rainfall rate of 185.8mm/hr this afternoon with the thunderstorm we received!!

Here is what came over our place this afternoon, it's a friends photo who was down on the coast in Warrnambool. I live east of Warrnambool just to the northeast of Port Campbell.

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

A line of severe thunderstorms continues to move across eastern central districts, stretching in a line about Echuca to Cape Liptrap. It is expected to continue into eastern districts tonight. Damaging winds, large hailstones and flash flooding all remain likely.

[johnno]

I took these 3 pics... Storm approaching from the West at 6pm between Laverton and Footscray area



Storm rolling in 640pm signs of a severe gust front



Squall from the storm moveing over me rough as guts underneath very turbulent skies 645pm

[Pengaz]

Some rain totals so far:

Iona - 40mm
Frankston North - 41mm
Cranbourne - 30mm
Oakleigh South - 28mm
Ringwood - 27mm
Cardinia Res. - 27mm


Those two nasty storms that skirted across the bay look like they really dumped their load in a very short time period... imagine if these had been moving just a tad slower, would have been carnage!!!

[Loo]

Fantastic pics everyone.Amazing afternoon and evening. Hail up to walnut size here in Paky and lots of flash flooding. Havent seen a storm front look that good in a long time. Rotation was insane at one point and we were close to seeing something a bit magical. Didn't happen

[Ausmammal]

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[Instability]

OK, yesterday I had my camera in the car, today I took it out

Coming down from Somerton where I now work (must change my profile) I had a beautiful view of 2 cells. Both had a nice roll cloud on the NE side with nice multiple towers going up under the anvil. This was at about 6:30, with one to the east of the city and the other to the west (i will have to review a radar loop at this time to see what their echo was like).

The cell to the west of the city was springing up new towers on the NW side of the main updraft, and in the rain-free area under one of these updrafts I saw a small and very brief ropey funnel cloud. The base was quite high at this stage before the wind change came through, so there was very little danger of it ever getting near the ground.

I think it was this western cell combined with the wind change that sent a nice roll cloud over me as I came through Bulleen - very nice but also very hard to concentrate on the road.

Some brilliant photos from the usual suspects - good work guys

Rog.