Vic: Cold fronts, Gales, AFL Grand Final Sept 24-30

[93ben]

Pretty loud rumbles of thunder here in Templestowe atm.

[James]

hmm i could hear those distant grumbles, but few and far in between tonight

[SC.]

Thunder just woke me up here. Good steady rain as well.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

2 Thunder claps at 4am now steady bucketing

[Sugarlata]

Gee, that was awesome. Huge thunder clap over Forest Hill!

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Melbourne already had 25mm

[Luken]

Yeah that 4am BOOOMM got me awake as well. Our house is pretty quiet, and even in moderate rain we can hardly hear anything inside, but that clap this morning sure made it in. Models seem to be indicating a fair bit of further rain today. Up to about 75mm here MTD.

[I_Love_Storms]

BOM should issue a precautionary squall warning. These next bands could turn nasty through the bay

[Skywalker]

Great system, not sure of overnight total back home as I forgot to check the gauge. Water everywhere on the roads near work. Very gusty winds at present, roller door sounds like it's going to get blown off.

[I_Love_Storms]

Severe Weather Warning
for damaging winds
for people in the Northern Country, North Central, North East, South West, Central, West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland forecast districts
Issued at 10:08 am EST on Thursday 26 September 2013.
Weather Situation
A vigorous westerly flow is expected today in the wake of a cold front.

Damaging winds around 50 to 70 km/h with peak gusts of 90 to 100 km/h are forecast for parts of the Northern Country, North Central, North East, South West, Central and West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland forecast districts. Localised wind gusts of 110 to 120 km/h are possible, particularly near the coast and in elevated areas or with thunderstorms.

Mount Buller has recorded a wind gust of 133km/h at 3.07am, while numerous other locations over southern and mountain areas of Victoria have already recorded gusts of 80 to 95 km/hr.

The State Emergency Service advises that people should:

Move vehicles under cover or away from trees.
Secure or put away loose items around your house, yard and balcony.
Keep clear of fallen power lines.
For emergency help in floods and storms, ring your local SES Unit on 132 500.

The next warning will be issued by 5:00 pm EST Thursday.
This warning is also available through TV and Radio broadcasts; the Bureau's website at http://www.bom.gov.au" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or call 1300-659-217*.

[aussiestormfreak]

24.2mm of rain overnight, had two rounds of thunder and lightning (one at about 1:00am and the other at around 4:30am), very windy outside and more showers and thunderstorms coming in from the southwest, should be an active day weatherwise!

[Dane]

Another 30.8mm's up to 9am making the month to date 149mm's of that 139mm's has fallen in the last 10 days, YTD is now 680mm's.Very windy now with gusts from the WNW getting up to 33 knots (61kmh) on my PWS. There have been gust of up to 55 knots - over 100kmh on the bay. Winds will ease in the next few hours.

[Skywalker]

Dane, your rainfall total during the past 10 days has been simply crazy! Unbelievable!

Wind has been shocking here this morning, even the mobile phone tower in our street has been swaying in the wind. Can't say I've ever seen that happen before.

[Lara_Hunter]

Hail in Burrumbeet, site was washed out today

[I_Love_Storms]

Think it is hailing in Malvern as well! Bucketing and sounds like pebbles hitting the roof but can't confirm it is hail!

[Jake Smethurst]

Heavy rain earlier this morning with lightning and thunder waking me up at about 4am as well! Since then, just very very windy with heavy showers. Was driving to university and my poor mazda 3 was being shifted left and right with the wind!

Showers and thunder will gradually contract to East Gippsland during the afternoon, and as Dane mentioned, winds will ease next few hours.

Have also updated today's thunderstorm chart. Tomorrow's will be updated later.

[johnno]

Incredible boom of thunder here at 215am like an explosion! Shook the whole house!

34mm here and 32mm the City so slightly passing my expectations of 15-30mm this way great system!

The westerlies between 8am and 11am were the strongest westerlies I have ever experienced in my life

[I_Love_Storms]

Two cold air thunderstorms through here. The last one was great. Better system today than I thought storm wise!

[Skywalker]

Just had a massive gust of wind push through here during the past 10-15 minutes, must of been close to 100 km/h. Very surprised no damage has occurred in the street.

Apparently Sydney is copping the winds as well. Just got off the phone from our Head Office up there and it's absolutely blowing a gale.

[stratospear]

159 km/h wind gust on Hogan Island in Bass Strait. Wow!