Victoria: Unstable period and cold outbreak - 7th - 12th Jan

[Rivergirl]

YIKESS!!! Just had a clap of thunder that reverberated right through my chest and the cat jumped a mile!

[BigBen]

YIKESS!!! Just had a clap of thunder that reverberated right through my chest and the cat jumped a mile!

Heavyish rain and some hail plus 1 flash of lightning and a loud but short rumble of thunder here in abbotsford.

[Skywalker]

Just a massive gust of wind along with the shower that is currently pushing through. I reckon it was a 100km/h gust. The highest so far according to the Laverton WS was 91km/h at 11:25am. This was certainly one hell of a blast, thought the roof was going to come off the warehouse!

[stratospear]

11.7 degC at 11:35am at Bendigo AWS. That's crazy for Mid-January! (It did get to 16 degC an hour earlier though).

[Didjman]

12.9/3.8C here. Max gust 57.9klm/hr. No precip or thunder.
Peter

[93ben]

Wow, it looks like it snowed at my house with all that hail! I'm going to upload the photos to Facebook soon and will post the link to the album after that. There was also lightning and thunder. Plus my gardener is outside trying to do the garden is this weather!

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[wolfcat]

This mornings Coldies over the MCG

[snowshow]

Its winter again, its hailing and absolutely bucketing down with the hail, the wind is very strong and blew the front door open

[Macedonian]

minus 12 overnight at Mount Hotham? doubt it.

[93ben]

minus 12 overnight at Mount Hotham? doubt it.

They said it felt like minus 12 there overnight... look http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801 ... 4906.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[droughtbreaker]

Crazy day today. Only a few brief showers here so far (after a few overnight by the looks of things), they have been quite heavy though with squalls and a tiny bit of very small hail in one of them. The temperature is falling to below 10C in showers. Currently 13C which is the maximum so far. This is one of the more significant cold outbreaks I can remember for this time of year. It's not as severe as the Christmas 2006 event but it is right up there.

[droughtbreaker]

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They said it felt like minus 12 there overnight... look http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801 ... 4906.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Yeah, that's really nasty. I remember a day in January a handful of years back, driving over the alps from Bairnsdale, where it was extremely thick fog (close to zero visibility), light rain and 3C at the summit of Mount Hotham around lunchtime but on the other side at Bright it ended up 27C for a max and storms.

Crazy VIC weather always keeps us guessing.

[daviescr]

Agree droughtbreaker, it's definitely up there. Love days like this.
Made it to 4.5mm to 9am and then a further 9.5 until now at home, about 3-5 times more than any of the models predicted, and pretty much 3 or so degrees cooler than predicted (and dare I say it a whopping 8c cooler than the BOM forecast 4 days ago )

[droughtbreaker]

LOL @ 25c by BOM for next Thursday for Melbourne.. Thats the biggest joke I have seen by the BOM since there -20c which we saw Yesterday.. I wonder where they pulled that one from

Just thought I'd bump this one to point out how the BOM's forecasting system can still get things horribly wrong, even if they are probably improving over time and much better than what they were.

The forecast for tomorrow is now 21C with similar output from the models as there was back then. (To think they were originally going for 25C that's just pure insanity )

[James]

there are reports in the media and from people using the dreaded "mini tornado" term saying one went through bayswater this morning...cant find anywhere that confirms it

[daviescr]

Load of tosh James, highly unlikely IMO, and probably just someone freaking out about the gusty high winds, as usual The Age makes mention of it Here

[SC.]

Working at Monash Uni today about 500 meters from home , it absolutely belted down at times with thunder and hail, so wasn't surprised when I emptied out 15mm from last night and today.

[norfolk]

still only just above 1mm for the day, no sign of any hail, but i am sure gusts up to 100km/h, another branch from the back tree fell!

oh and btw, i am sure that snow on the mountains in summer is not a rare thing, tell me otherwise though, but I am not surprised at that

[johnno]

Well if it ends up being 18.6c which is what the CBD has maxed out so far it will be the coldest January day since 2009 when it was also 18.6c, it was also 18.6c in 2000 & in 1998.. We have to go back to 1996 to see a colder January day when it was 15.6c!

[johnno]

And suddenly at 530pm it shoots up to 19c in the City