Strong cold front and lows: July 10 -

[stevco123]

Dissapointment here for me. Not even hail to get me half excited. The only thing i can note is how windy it has continuously been with sustained gusts over 50km/h. One big gust even blew my roller shutter out of the tracks on the pergola

[hillybilly]

Dissapointment here for me. Not even hail to get me half excited. The only thing i can note is how windy it has continuously been with sustained gusts over 50km/h. One big gust even blew my roller shutter out of the tracks on the pergola

Sadly the models kinda nailed it. Cold air going through overnight with northwesterly flow when the diurnal cycle turned off the showers. Add a cold bay and it's basically not going to rain in Melbourne. Think most of us saw this coming, but had those fingers crossed the models were wrong or we'd get lucky.

Am surprised we got proper snow here - really lucky to pick up a couple of rotating bands around the parent low and get ~90 minutes of snow. Also lucky I woke up at 2am and caught the best of it They just clipped the southern part of the Dandenongs with Mt Dandy basically missing, and spots in the Yarra Valley area such as Kinglake, near Warburton etc basically fine. Set up a lot like August 1997 and August 2005.

Got our first shower just then for the whole event with brief heavy rain. Was quite a few wet flurries (big flakes mixed in) but temperatures now too warm for proper snow. Uppers are warming to around -2C 850T so snow quickly headed back to alpine levels.

I tend to find snow in Melbourne is almost always a disappointment. Your fighting a warming trend of about 1C in the waters around us, and when it does get cold enough with freak synoptics the air is often too dry. Maybe next time

[Geoff]

Fab pics Chris and Gordon! Nothing here, as I expected only places that get rain/snow in a westerly flow did well.
Sod's law - just had our first heavy shower and with the temperature up to 5c - it rained! To be fair there was a trace of "bits" in it on the windscreen.
(I forgot to add, we had a massive mountain ash tree crash down into our creek in yesterday's wind, it can stay there, much too big to move).

[Macedonian]

Just got back from a walk up to The Camels Hump, 1015m the highest point on the macedon range and about 1.5km from here. It was still snowing up there and i got home just as the cops reopened Mt Macedon rd and about a million cars surged up the hill. Yuk!

Still have a full cover here and its 1.4C

[Gordon]

The snow is melting here now with the temp up to 4 C but no complaints.

I almost forgot to mention that the snow (that's almost all we had up until an hour ago) equated to another 6 mm in the rain gauge, so we're up to 91 mm for July!

Another fantastic system for rain (20 mm for the thread dates) as well as the bonus snow.

[Skywalker]

Customer of ours was just in and said it was snowing at Gisborne last night.

[BigBen]

Just back.in from taking pics. Its so deceptive, there is 4cm on a table top and 5-7cm drifted in the garden against stone walls etc.
Pics are on FB account is Chris Williams

great photo's. I may stalk your account for more photo's next time systems occur.

great to see the Mount with snow on it.

I'll chat with mum tonight and find out how much snow Woodend got, I know she was in Kyneton yesterday and it briefly snowed there, which is a bit unusual!

[BringOnTheCoolChange]

Fab pics Chris and Gordon! Nothing here, as I expected only places that get rain/snow in a westerly flow did well.
Sod's law - just had our first heavy shower and with the temperature up to 5c - it rained! To be fair there was a trace of "bits" in it on the windscreen.
(I forgot to add, we had a massive mountain ash tree crash down into our creek in yesterday's wind, it can stay there, much too big to move).

No snow this morning either, what looked like Titania crescent on twitter around the corner had snow, could be wrong tho. It narrowly missed, we missed out by 1km.

[Macedonian]

Just back.in from taking pics. Its so deceptive, there is 4cm on a table top and 5-7cm drifted in the garden against stone walls etc.
Pics are on FB account is Chris Williams

great photo's. I may stalk your account for more photo's next time systems occur.

great to see the Mount with snow on it.

I'll chat with mum tonight and find out how much snow Woodend got, I know she was in Kyneton yesterday and it briefly snowed there, which is a bit unusual!

They had a good fall in Woodend, i saw lots of pics.
Ill post pics on here now that i know how to go about it. I thought it was still like the bad old days where you had to do it through flickr or imageshack. Its so much less tedious now.

Still a very good intact cover here, about 2-3cm left on the ground and shaping up for a frost which is great!
Ive just spent the last hour cobbling together a system of pipes to divert all the snowmelt away from my water tanks. Its cold enough brushing my teeth and drinking the tankwater without that lot ending up in there as well.
Interesting temp range today of -2.4C to +2.4C lol

[BringOnTheCoolChange]

No snow this morning either, what looked like Titania crescent on twitter around the corner had snow, could be wrong tho. It narrowly missed, we missed out by 1km.

*My bad, that was Hillbilly's property, LOL. It did look like Titania Crescent on twitter on my phone tho, i never knew you were Dave, your that guy with all them youtube videos of snow falling.

[hillybilly]

No snow this morning either, what looked like Titania crescent on twitter around the corner had snow, could be wrong tho. It narrowly missed, we missed out by 1km.

Pretty sure it would have snowed at your place at 2-3am. It was really dry snow, and the temperature was hovering around 0.5C. That would have put the snow line around 300 to 400m. Heard reports of sleet down in Upwey at ~200m.

Sadly, had to be up at 2-3am to see it

BTW pretty lean system here rainwise. Just 8mm in the end. MTD just shy of 60mm.

For the prog watches we are headed for an astonishing warm up in the upper which will hit about 12C over Melbourne on Sunday/Monday. These won't break through to the surface because the sun's too weak still (though could well crack low 20s around Mildura). I suspect these values are about record warm for mid winter. Further north a deep upper low is forming with a major rain event in the middle of the Queensland dry season Seriously strange weather ATM.

[BringOnTheCoolChange]

Pretty sure it would have snowed at your place at 2-3am. It was really dry snow, and the temperature was hovering around 0.5C. That would have put the snow line around 300 to 400m. Heard reports of sleet down in Upwey at ~200m.

Sadly, had to be up at 2-3am to see it

Dang i wish i had a toilet trip around that time then. Well it did feel a bit icy on top of my car, maybe it was the left overs from 3am, couldn't tell, i got a white car and it was dark, no visible snow patches were on ground tho at 5:40am.

[Sean]

Severe wind, that's all I got. Haha.

[Macedonian]

This mornings leftover snow.

Leftover snow

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[Gordon]

Still some snow on the hill across the valley - all gone here.

[WeatherViewer]

Is that a young Palm your growing there Macedonian? I'm sure it's least impressed with the snow
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[Macedonian]

Is that a young Palm your growing there Macedonian? I'm sure it's least impressed with the snow
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The little green clump? It is Bearded Iris, she is not very happy about it but will cope.
No palms in my garden!

[Gordon]

The last of the snow. Interesting how long after most has melted, it has lingered in a couple of spots. Must have been significant wind-driven accumulation.

[hillybilly]

Love the photos Macedonian and Gordon, thanks for sharing. I recall an event in 2000 which dropped large amounts of snow to low levels. I was driving near Cooma about two weeks after that event and there were still ribbons of snow like that one (Gordon). Guessing the drifts must have been 50 to 100cm to have survived.

Talked to a few more locals and friends. Was a light cover of snow in Olinda at about ~500m on cars yesterday. Friend near Kilmore didn't get any (at ~600m) and similar a friend at Kinglake at ~650m didn't get any. Precip was clearly the deciding factor.

Another cold one today in FC despite the rapid warming aloft. Just 6C for a max with 0.5mm of drizzly rain.

Unfortunately, we'll pay for this excitment with a week of boring weather now as the upper part of the cold outbreak sits over Queensland with a cut-off (perhaps an early taste of springs in the offering).

[hillybilly]

Check out the inversion at Mt Buller. Stunning.