Haven't been on for a couple of days, busy getting stuff ready for the move to Melbourne!
Was in Warrnambool on Monday, reached 40 degrees there!! That was 4 degrees above the forecast maximum and a bit of a surprise. Drove home through smoke haze that had drifted from the fires near dunkeld, and pretty much cooked the rest of the night in my room. Change came through overnight and was luckily enough to still be struggling to sleep that I was able to see a thunderstorm that rolled over for about 30 mins. Not really much rain in it though, 2mm in the gauge, and lightning was active, at least 1 flash every 5 seconds (consider that active as of late).
Need rain desperately down here now. There is absolutely no soil moisture left at all and dads indicated milk supply has been hampered. :/ it's been a hot, dry summer down here that's for sure! Fires have come close to our area twice now and I have never seen that happen before.
Will check models etc ... tomorrow and update the forecasts, just after I move down to the big smoke