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Black core! SW of Ballarat.. Fresh development there

Monster of a storm just to my north, can hear distant rumbles but i think it will just pass us by, would be good at night

Great shots Meso!, been looking at the back end of that all afternoon and can only see the top of it with trees in the way

johnno » Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:30 pm wrote:

johnno wrote:Black core! SW of Ballarat.. Fresh development there

Looks good. If it were to continue its path would you expect it to hold intensity or die? Actually looks like its heading for Melbourne!

lovely shots Meso...much cooler by the bay now still humid.

Looks nasty for Ballarat right now, but looks very slow moving and only affecting its western suburbs.

Massive tower going up to the NE, huge CB now, this is the best I've seen it all day from here

The most beautiful sun-showers today on Mount Macedon. Loud thunder and heavy rain briefly. Very pleasant and 18.8C now after a top of 24C and a low of 11C. Perfect summer weather.

43mm this week

Happy Christmas

Macedonian » Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:48 pm wrote:

Macedonian wrote:The most beautiful sun-showers today on Mount Macedon. Loud thunder and heavy rain briefly. Very pleasant and 18.8C now after a top of 24C and a low of 11C. Perfect summer weather.s

Seems like I'm on another continent here... yet only 70km away.

Went for a drive through Eltham, Yarra Glen, Kangaroo Ground and Panton Hill saw nothing but I do have some fantastic photos of the most exquisite towers, should have don't this earlier in the day as it is going of die off once the sun sets.

WOW Massive tower going up over the Dandenongs with another forming behind
Can see it from Moorabbin
might try and take a couple of pics

Pretty impressive isn't it, Mikew?

so why did it yet again not form in the suburbs today? I'm tired of hearing "tommorow will be better" when the same thing happens again.

It'd be nice to know the actual reasons behind why different areas are favoured over others when this happens, was it the sea breeze that destroyed it today?

Cells near ballarat are moving this way

Yes it was the seabeeeze and it was better today in general for central areas.

Rarley get hit here, was hoping for a storm, probably wont get one tomorrow either unless storms are tracking SW from the NW!

Thunder getting louder, also a couple of grass fires popping up probably from lightning

AUS_Twisted » Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:36 pm wrote:

AUS_Twisted wrote:Great shots Meso!, been looking at the back end of that all afternoon and can only see the top of it with trees in the way

I had the same problem here AUS, but managed to get a crappy pano of it. This one was over Warbuton at 18:10, great pics meso!!!! Oh they're clickable thumbs!



and a tighter shot of the updraft which was boiling

If ever you wanted to show a hiroshima that overshoots, here it is!



A dead set monster.

Just got a few big drops of rain, but because of ridiculously high cloud bases most of it is evaporating well before it hits the ground.