While it's fresh in my mind, here's my weather observations for today...
It topped 20.9C at 3:31pm this afternoon and the lowest it got to last night was only about 14C but that was before (not after) midnight, I think around 10pm from memory before I reset my weather station at midnight!
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And it actually warmed up rather than cooled down during the night, it was 17.2C at midnight and about 18C when I woke up at around 8am before heading off into the City!! Very, very, VERY unusual for winter!!!!
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At least the sunshine was very pleasant when the cloud broke up around mid-to-late-afternoon
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but hard to believe how quickly the weather changed between 4pm and 5pm on the way home, it sure got very dark and threatening quite rapidly, I had a strong feeling that lightning was imminent but alas all we got was that fast-moving band of squally, heavy showers that swept down from the north/northwest after dark (the bulk of it between 6pm and 7:30pm, no thunderstorm sadly
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looks like parts of Northeast Victoria (including Corryong) and certainly north towards northern parts of NSW have been doing well 'lightning-wise' from that band
4.2mm during the course of the 'storm' (if you call it that, it sure was wild and blustery and the rain was bucketing down, kinda like a cyclone coming through haha)
I was expecting a very windy day given the Severe Weather Warning that was in place, but it was fairly quiet, the strongest gusts we had topped 34.6km/h at 3:50am, otherwise the strongest winds were during the 'storm' I mentioned earlier.
Lots of showers starting to form over Southern Victoria on the radar, maybe we'll see a stray thunderstorm overnight?
Edit: I forgot to mention that the coldest it got to was 12.1C at 8:18pm, after the storm went through. It was about 18C beforehand but the temperature sure plummeted as the wind and rain lashed down!!
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And now it's risen back to 15.4C!
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