Victoria: Extended Heatwave - Jan 13 2014 - Jan 18 2014

[dagget]

Thunder and lots of lightning here really going off but no rain as yet

[droughtbreaker]

Yes, some very lightning active storms and the full moon is showing Cb exploding everywhere, very heavy and dark looking. The temperature is down to under 26C here now which seems to be a standout compared to nearby AWS readings. It's getting just a little muggy now as well.

Lighting strikes causing fires nearby with these storms which is a bit of a worry. It's dead calm atm however.

[dagget]

OK we got the rain now and it is good bringing the temp down as well.

[droughtbreaker]

Some awesome lightning arcing across the sky and huge drops just starting to come down. It's trying its best atm, it would be fantastic to have a big downpour. WIshful thinking though probably.

[dagget]

Getting good rain here for now hope it lasts for at least a little while temp dropped a degree in about 10 mins to under 28.

[droughtbreaker]

Totally useless here. It's just way too dry for recordable rain, we're just getting dribbly periods of large drops. Temp is down to 23.6C which is the main effect of the storms.

[dagget]

Have to go out in the rain later and check the gauge probably a couple of mm, temp now 24 and still falling.

[Jake Smethurst]

There is the risk for damaging winds under these storms considering how dry and high based they are. As I mentioned earlier this afternoon ... Melbourne is in with the risk of a thunderstorm tonight.

[Didjman]

can see the cells out west, but too far away for lightning trigger atm.
Peter

[droughtbreaker]

Ended up with a period of heavy rain with huge drops. Still raining on and off. It's been enough to get water running down the driveway and the spouts pouring out water, nothing torrential or anything though.

Two massive bolts, one only about 500m away, a direct strike that caused a massive bang and shook the house for several seconds! There is some serious energy involved after the baking hot day. Winds have been very tame as far as thunderstorms go. No severe phenomena to report. Temp got down to near 20C at the lowest but will shoot back up in between storms and after the storms pass.

Tomorrow night showing even greater potential for evening and overnight storms with another sea breeze front forecast for the late afternoon.

Starting to rain again now.

[dagget]

Nice here now 23 degrees still plenty of activity here.

[Jake Smethurst]

Outflow from the storms produced a 102 km/h gust at Laverton not long ago.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801 ... 4865.shtml

[Jake Smethurst]

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Victoria

NEWS FLASH - FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

TOP PRIORITY

Squall Warning
for Port Phillip and Western Port

Issued at 11:06pm on Tuesday the 14th of January 2014

Squalls to 50 knots are likely between 11pm and 1am over Port Phillip
and Western Port Phillip and Western Port.

EDIT: It appears the site has completely done itself in this evening. We have been working on a fix all day. We apologize for any problems experienced but we hope to have everything working as soon as possible.

[jimmyay]

Just come back from a late swim down the bay at Elwood Beach. One pleasure of these very hot days. Beach was full of people, ice cream van, lovely atmosphere, especially great watching the amazing lightning from the storms out west with someone's sound system playing ambient tunes... lol Some incredbible CG flashes, some distance off ( no thunder) but somewhere is getting it....

Guess this will be a nightly ritual til Friday!

[johnno]

Is there anybody out there? (can hear echo voices)

Technical issues? Haven't been able to get on for a good 10 hours.


What a hot night

[Jake Smethurst]

Yeah John I've just managed to fix the site 10 mins ago. Hopefully it's all good to go! I'm doing a little more investigating to see if I can find out what the problem was, so my apologies if it goes offline again, but it shouldn't!

It's hot and dare I say a bit humid too! I'm sitting here shirtless on the computer haha! Looking forward to a potential storm this afternoon.

[HarleyB]

Looks like we're back, yay

A warm night up here, that's for sure. 26.0 was my recorded minimum, and it already reached 38.1 about 15 minutes ago, but mid-level cloud is capping the temp for now. Tomorrow looks to me like potentially the hottest day of the sequence, GFS is forecasting little cloud (though I don't know how accurate that forecast is) and 850T approaching 28 over parts of the state.

Currently sitting on 37.9 here.

[Wilko]

I'm here somewhere
What happened ?
36c already arghhh

[SC.]

The forum looks like it's back to normal. Thanks Jake!!!

Got heated off Monash Uni at 9.30. Richardson Hall was sticking hot at 6am.

Hum 28%, feels more than that??

[norwester]

I'm here, or maybe I'm just an echo LOL! Took the dogs for a walk in the vines last night at 8.30 in the relative cool of 40C. Can't complain too much about Mildura's heat given everyone is in the same boat. Watched those lovely thunderstorms slip south of us last evening - we had lots of towering anvils but no action, probably just as well given the dry, dry landscape. Hope everyone can fing a cool spot and a long drink.