Victoria: Thundery Weather. February 7th-12th 2010

[Dez]

Can see mammatus on the anvil above me.

[adon]

Well Well we have action to my west! :jumpingmany: Now just a matter of whether it will actually come this way! VERY slow moving and looking to maybe go north of me but you never know and there are more cells popping up to it's south so We may get lucky

[Blackee]

[Spargs]

Sunbury is a mess! There is crap everywhere, Gum trees blocking roundabouts flooding in the main street! not to mention my court has trees and bins all over the place and the water that came underneath the doors and windows! Certainly no fun at all!

[tizza]

well after no wind at all here today,( RANCID) the SB finally kicked in, BOO. Then not long ago it die off and a steady northerly has kicked in which is twice as strong as the weak SB was, so now I have some hope. Even though it's cooled off a couple of degrees I'm praying that the northerly hold firm and strengthens as the arvo wears on!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blackee]

Photos Spargs???

Also GFS 00z is still holding. 3rd run in a row for decent falls over the next 24hrs so I am kinds leaning towards a big dump overnight and tomorrow into Friday.

Happy days!!!

[mattg87]

The drive back from Yarrawonga was uneventful this morning (unlike the drive there Thursday Night, but that's for another thread...) - already had two fairly intense storms here this afternoon to welcome me home, one at about 12.30pm with impressive sound & light show but hardly any rain and then our main one at about 2pm which delivered about an inch of rain (I'm about 2.5km east of Kilmore Gap) and thunder like you would not believe.

Reports coming to us here of a school underwater at Gisbourne and some flood damage in Kilmore, but looking at the black (and getting darker - if possible) sky to our west, I reckon we've only seen the entree so far and the main course could be a lot more delicious.

22/18 here and dead calm.

[Blackee]

Hello!
Cell just gone bang to the East of Paky!!

[Dez]

Wow, nearly non-stop lightning to my north now.

EDIT: Wow, i just looked at the radar. Look at how quickly the cell heading to Noojee has developed.

[sago]

Welcome Sago! Don't forget to put your location in so we which area your in.

Thanks Melbourne Skywalker.
Going back outside to get ready for some action. Definatley seems to be slowly getting closer. Radio starting to go nuts. Can also see big tower to my SE futher in the distance.

[Blackee]

Game on now folks!!!
Majority of obs showing northerlies which means the seabreeze is dying.
I can cell towers rising to my SE towards St Kilda and beyond.
Get the cameras ready!!

EDIT: Northern half of the bay is under a northerly flow.

[Lily]

Wind is consistently coming from the North round to the ESE here, has been since before 3pm. Have more development to the NW of here now

Welcome Sago, lovely to have you on board

[Dc449]

Cant feel the SB here or it is very weak! Dark to the North and North Western ofcourse

[Skywalker]

Can see development going up looking towards the south east out my window, could be well & truly on! Black as a dogs guts out west.

[Karl Lijnders]

Back at Sugarloaf after watching an amazing storm pass north of Yarra Glen with a lovely corkscrew updraught rotating into a heavy hail shaft. Hail cannons were going off all around me.

Cannot confirm a tornado but a very large lowering has appeared near Mt Macedon with strong strobing bolts and greenage. Cgs every 3s from my vantage point with lots of branchy positives.

Strong northerly winds here helping drive convection further south.

[sago]

Looks crazy to my West....not long now. Also starting to get a breeze from the NW

[Dc449]

Can see towers going up to my west! looking good

[stormygirl]

I hope you are getting some pics, Karl!

Great looking sky at the moment! Under the anvil from the massive storms out west, and even spotted some CG's. Mammatus hovering overhead too. The cell over east towards Noojee had some fabulous updraughts with pileus, and I'm ever hopefull we'll get 'something' tonight, especially considering the developments out west in the last couple of radar frames towards Bannockburn...please maintain heading and intensity over the bay....pretty please!!!

Winds still from the North here...

[tizza]

Massive mama over head, biggest I've seen in years. I think the cell coming in from the west is going to finally produce. It's looking quite nasty as far a melb radar suggests, tracking due ene from werribe/laverton. I think we're in KIDZ!!!!! bubble, bubble toil and TROUBLE

[Skywalker]

There is a slight chance we could get smashed right here at work if that red cell just south west of here moves a little north east. Come on! :frogjump: