WATL wind forecast is indicating some strong s/westerly winds pushing into port Phillip bay and Melbourne and suburbs between 7am and 10am tomorrow (wednesday)
Up to 50kmk /hr , not including gusts http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/wind/index.jsp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Had a bit of a house flooding problem just before with all the heavy rain, but all is good now, had to go outside and fix a few things. We have thunder and lightning her now too!!
Severe Weather Warning
for damaging winds
for people in the South West, North Central, Central, West and South Gippsland, East Gippsland and North East forecast districts
Issued at 9:45 pm EDT on Tuesday 10 January 2012.
Weather Situation
An active cold front approaching southwestern Victoria tonight will move rapidly eastwards across the State overnight and Wednesday morning.
Damaging winds averaging 50 to 60 km/h with peak gusts around 95 km/h are forecast for the South West, Central, West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland forecast districts and over parts of the North Central and North East forecast districts. Coastal and exposed elevated areas are the most likely regions to be affected.
Jake - Senior AWF Forecaster
Feel free to send me a private message if you have any questions.
As expected the south eastern suburbs getting smashed this morning & nothing but wind out this side of town. No surprises there, will be glad when this one is over.
Caroline Springs, Melbourne's meteorological boredom zone.
Love the sound of rain and Hail on the roof, think we are just on the edge of it here in Abbotsford. The SE suburbs will do well today, cells seem to be picking up on the travels across the bay.
In Bayswater today and it hasn't stopped raining/hailing since 8:30am. As expected, high heat content of Port Phillip Bay is quickly dissipating into the atmosphere and creating a very unstable airmass... It'll be interesting to see how much the Bay cools in the next two days.
Also, quite a few Metro & V/Line rail services are suspended this morning due to fallen trees.
Turning into quite an event...42mm at Weeaproinah, widespread 25 to 30mm through the West Gippsland, and Bellarine peninsula areas around Cape Otway.
Also Baw Baw has had 25mm already and would be covered in snow which will provide a big run off into the Thompson.
Should be some big totals with all the snow through the Alps which should be an awesome charge up for the big events just around the corner, and make run off for them much better.
Wow, what's next? Got woken up here in Templestowe at 9am with heavy rain and strong winds. Just before another front passed by and brought thunder with it!