April 20-22. Trough with showers.

[Geoff]

Don't know how much we've had but would guess about 10mm and still coming down quite heavily now. Looking at next week's crazy forecast we're going to need all of this!

[hillybilly]

Really teaming down here. Radar isn't picking it well. Being a Doppler it requires the rain to move towards or away from the radar to be seen. With the rain going northwest to southeast the rain through the eastern burbs is largely invisible as is the rain in the northwest burbs. 17mm here now could soon be 20.

Quite a few spot in the eastern burbs now in the 15 to 20mm range.

[stevco123]

I came on here to report that radar was underperforming here but it looks like it is happening at other places too. Currently moderate rain. It could be said bordering heavy.

Looks like it could well continue right into the night too

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Scoresby sitting on top with 24mm
Can hear it but yes. Not on radar..

[SC.]

20mm here, wasn't expecting that.

[hillybilly]

Well that was a surprise. 28mm in the gauge. One happy weather watcher here

MTD just shy of 80mm now.

Central areas really did well from this one with much less in the west and east

Now comes another dry week, with something maybe late next week.

[Onetahuti]

A great 22 mm here, certainly more than I was originally expecting.
Best fall I have seen is 37 mm at Mount Donna, (Melbourne Water site)

[Macedonian]

20mm here and looks like the same down at work which is a bigger relief. If we get a bit of pasture growth on the farm the cows and sheep might be able to come back from their holiday in NSW

[Didjman]

15.6mm here. Heaps more than expected!
Peter

[Dane]

13.6mm's in the 24 hours to 9am here, so a bit less than many Suburbs.
System total 14.5mm's and MTD 38.1mm's. Still well short of the monthly
average which is over 70mm's.

[Geoff]

A very timely 18mm here, not as much as some, but more than I was expecting, so no complaints. Let's just hope we don't have to wait 2-3 weeks for the next lot.

[Tassiedave]

2mm in Launceston yesterday bringing the monthly total to 5.4 mm. Hobart received 2.8 mm for a MTD total of 4 mm.

[Gordon]

3 mm here to 9am. An incredible miss really considering the models had us in the zone and such good falls <50 km away.

[droughtbreaker]

17.8mm here and not a second too soon.

The effect of this El Nino locally has actually been quite extreme in terms of the absolute high pressure dominance for most of the period from October to now, and still continuing on. Maybe not quite as bad as 1982/83 in terms of overall impact but at least that event broke down fairly early in 1983 and there were good rains through March and April. This year we are still waiting... There are somewhat better signs that the pattern might be starting to break, at least going by some recent model runs (although still very erratic from run to run and model to model).

Three months in particular have stood out in terms of deviations from normal temps, i.e October and December last year and March this year. April is also significantly above average for both max and min temps. As David has mentioned several times over the course of this El Nino, it's almost like we have had 7 months of summer.

[StratoBendigo]

We only managed 2mm. Was quite cold this morning but it looks like more desert heat this coming week.

But next weekend is showing signs of being the Autumn break for some of the State - especially if Access-G and EC is to believed.

[Supercellimpact]

Total of 4.4mm for the month here. Keen for some decent rain instead of just 1 or 2mm.

[hillybilly]

A cool drizzle Saturday for us, but only 0.6mm. Was kinda damp all day but only spitty stuff.

Tassiedave, really surprised you didn't get more Tas is having a shocking run... Really just one huge system in nearly 9 months.

Progs starting to get excited about this coming week. Could change but best looking frontal sequence for a long time.

[Skywalker]

Currently experiencing our first thick fog for the year down here at Cowes. Should be another perfect sunny day once it clears. Yesterday turned out to be absolutely beautiful.

We actually did quite well out of that system on Thursday back in the western suburbs. Picked up about 7-8mm locally.

[Gordon]

Time for a new thread for later in the week? We could call it 'The Autumn Break' - but that might jinx it... How about 'End of April - Chance of a Shower'?