VIC: Cold outbreak with showers/hail 15-17 October'10

[Gordon]

20 mm on the dot to 9 am, started raining about 3.30 am from memory (which isn't too good at 3.30 am!) That is one big mass of rain on the 512 km!

[Onetahuti]

Just ticked over 10mm here.

[Skywalker]

Good morning all, 14mm here so far with light rain still falling.

[Blackee]

Flood Warning are current for the following rivers/creeks:

* Kiewa River
* Seven Creeks/Castle Creek
* Campaspe River
* Murray River upstream of Hume Weir.

For further details please check the seperate warnings page in Breaking Weather, or click on my signature (or check out bom.gov.au)

[Karl Lijnders]

6mm last hour.

[Rivergirl]

In Ferny Creek we just had 4mm in a very short time, very heavy

[Timster]

Up to 28mm since 3:30am, and pressure down to 997 now... 9 degrees.
Not very windy though.

[stevco123]

Only 7mm since 3am.lots more to come by the looks of things.can't wait for the coldest air tonight

[Blackee]

Too right Steve.
18z runs have held very tight on very good falls over the next 24 hrs.
Have also noticed the cold pool heading more NNE than E, which is brilliant.

Wife & daughter are heading to Wagga this morning, they should have an interesting trip.

[Alexia]

Just got power back on off for 3.5hrs tree across line at Tallangatta. Rained all morning 41mm so far and the wind has just arrived.

[Karl Lijnders]

Have had 15mm here at work Lily and 15mm at home. Suprised your a little far behind down there? Did you get the heavy burst over the last hour?

Rain set to increase over the coming hours. Rainband literally stalling over the state. Cold air showers starting to push into the SW.

Rain band won't move until the cold air comes closer.

Looking good for 40-50mm still out of this rainband, 20-30mm for showers behind.

Alexia you should get 100mm out of this.

[Blackee]

Severe Weather Warning
for damaging winds and flash flooding
for people in the Alpine Areas, Western, North Central, Northern Country, Wimmera, Central, West and South Gippsland, East Gippsland and Northeast forecast districts
Issued at 10:24 am EDT on Friday 15 October 2010.

Weather Situation
A strong cold front over central Victoria will move through eastern areas of the State Friday afternoon.

Rain areas associated with the front will contract to eastern areas this afternoon and evening with some heavy falls expected, particularly about the northeast ranges. Scattered showers and local hail will follow. 30-50mm totals are expected over much of central and eastern Victoria today with totals 50 -75mm about the northeast and peak totals of 100mm+ about the northeast ranges. The heavy rain may lead to local flash flooding over central and eastern districts.

Strong to squally southwest winds will extend throughout the state and will average 40 to 60km/h this afternoon and early evening with gusts around 90km/h.

Snow showers will gradually lower tonight with some falls down to 500 metres expected in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Isolated thunderstorms are possible about the northeast this morning and near the western and central coast tonight.

[Lily]

Not really, Karl, but had 3mm in 1/2hr 9.30-10am with max rain rate of 10.8mm/hr. Now on 13.4mm, checked the manual gauge and it's showing slightly under 14mm, so much the same.

[Blackee]

Some terrific falls show there DJ!

Flood Watches have been updated in the last hour for the North East & Goulburn/Broken Basins. Updates for the Greater Melbourne & Campaspe/Loddon/Avoca/Wimmera basins should be available by noon.

[David]

Up to 12mm, with the heavy stuff developing to the west, going to be a few swollen creeks around.

[Rivergirl]

12.9mm up here in northern Ferny Creek now. Lots of fog

[mad*moo73]

Have had steady rain here since at least 7am, unlike others I was asleep in the wee hours of the morning. Missed out on the heavy stuff here, certainly didn't get the hail others reported. Noticed on my drive this morning that the torrents of water flowing down the storm water drains, could be interesting later in the day definate possibility of local flooding - hopefully that will wash all the huntsmen spiders away!

[BigBen]

All I can say is wow at the radar east of Werribee.

This morning was fantastic, awoke about 7 and stayed under the covers listening to the rain come down. About 20 past the rain rate was as high as I've experienced outside of a thunderstorm, only lasted 2 or 3 minutes as 'intense', I'd love to know what the rain rate was.

[tizza]

Yes and that big fat rain band should be right over me very shortly. I'll let you know how things go.

[johnno]

18mm here since it started 3am this morning Barometer has dropped abit more in the last Hour