Victoria: Unstable period and cold outbreak - 7th - 12th Jan

[crikey]

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;

[Jake Smethurst]

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.

[nafets]

Wow at the heavy rain and wind this morning! Woke up a lot because of the rain!

[Bellarine]

Decent rumble here and it's gone pretty dark......

[Skywalker]

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.

[Geoff]

Thunder!

[I_Love_Storms]

Getting absolutely caned in camberwell! Very heavy rain and hail! Love summer coldies

[tonycynic]

Thunder, rain, strong southerly wind and 11c at 9am, looks like we might struggle to get to the 27c BOM were forcasting earlier.

[occluded]

Yep round two coming through now in Hawthorn East / Camberwell area. Got a great view of a big grey cloud marching its way through the inner east.

Barely a mm overnight at home but expecting a fair amount today.

[BigBen]

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.

[Didjman]

no precip here yet, but wind up to 54.7k/h! Temp 15C.
Peter

[stratospear]

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.

[Anthony Violi]

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.

[Macedonian]

Beanie and scarf and two jumpers today, just a bit over 10C under grey skies and frequent showers. very breezy too

[Proteous]

Just the one cg and loud thunder. 2.4mm so far. 11.5 deg.

[I_Love_Storms]

Sky has turned black. This is going to be nasty

[thunderhead]

Nice rolls of thunder in Camberwell.

[occluded]

Coastal suburbs and Dandenongs appear to be copping the brunt of the wind as expected, LOTS of tree down jobs coming through so take care out there

[93ben]

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!

There's already snow at mount Hotham with and overnight temperature of -12o C. http://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/latest/a/- ... -victoria/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[norfolk]

so much sun here! Yes we have had a shower, but only 1mm so far, its just that damn wind thats annoying!