Vic: Showers and windy - July 22 to 29

[Rivergirl]

I saw the flash at that time too

[hillybilly]

That's all a bit odd. Went to bed with a rain band to our west and wake up with a rain band to our east. Somehow it managed to miss us in central areas

Next system coming in for tonight. Temps are starting to feel wintery again after the recent cool/mild days and the alpine locations are now firmly in the negatives again.

Looks like a decent blow tonight with the next front, and some significant cold air tomorrow (GFS has the freezing level dipping to somewhere between 800 and 900m which shoud see sleet/snow flurries about the tops of the Dandenongs. That said the system is quite westerly and hasn't tapped much moisture so not expecting a lot or precip apart away from the usual wet spots.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Mount Buller noting 22mm, yes our 4mm ddint change over night like expected.
Might get some Mowing done after all.

[Rivergirl]

And I'm off inland for a few weeks so hoping for some

Severe Weather Warning
IDV28000

Severe Weather Warning
for damaging winds and blizzards
for people in the Wimmera, North East, South West, Central, West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland forecast districts
Issued at 4:49 am EST on Saturday 25 July 2015.
Weather Situation
A strong cold front south of the Bight will enter western Victoria this evening, with strong to gale force northwesterly winds developing ahead of the change later this afternoon. The cold front and associated strong winds will contract eastwards across central and eastern areas of the State Saturday night and early on Sunday morning.

DAMAGING WINDS around 50 to 70 km/h with peak gusts of 90 km/h are forecast to develop later Saturday afternoon and evening for parts of the Wimmera, North East, South West, Central, West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland forecast districts.

BLIZZARD conditions are forecast to develop Saturday night over Alpine areas.

The State Emergency Service advises that people should:

Move vehicles under cover or away from trees.
Secure or put away loose items around your house, yard and balcony.
Keep clear of fallen power lines.
For emergency help in floods and storms, ring your local SES Unit on 132 500.

The next warning will be issued by 11:00 am EST Saturday.
http://www.bom.gov.au

[Gordon]

3 mm here overnight gives us a total of 18 mm for the system and brings up our 70 mm mtd - about the average so everything from now is bonus.

I'm enjoying this 'fine by day, rain at night' sequence. Perfect weather, win/win .

[mick]

Keep an eye on this.

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[Gordon]

The 4.32 pm BOM Central District forecast has snow to 500 m for Sunday, although the Melbourne forecast issued about the same time has snow to 600 m?

[BringOnTheCoolChange]

Does 400m have a chance?

[wolfcat]

Hang on to your hats folks, it going to get interesting shortly.

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Must have been holding onto my pillow and missed all that,
1.2mm

[hillybilly]

5.4mm overnight. This system is turning into a sequence of dribbles... had 2mm, 6mm and 5mm. Cold now, 3.9C here and still dropping. Thinking snow levels would be around 700mm currently if there was precip. Wind has dropped which is good - was gusty here last night but not that out of the ordinary.

Precip looking pretty sparse now with dry low levels. EC and GFS only have a couple of mm's more for most before the next high

Does 400m have a chance?

Doubt it. Maybe some graupel or small hail. I'd be surprised if we got anything up here at 560m.

[Macedonian]

Boring!!!
No strong wind here overnight and no low level snow. Not that I saw anyhow.
It was trying to about 30mins ago.
It was still 4.5C when I got back from the city at 1.30am
It is much colder now. Currently 0.4C

[occluded]

Gusty but non-eventful night, not sure where that rainband got to but mostly missed here - 1.5mm overnight.

[Macedonian]

Snowing here now , nice floaty flakes and the sun is sort of out as well. Very odd!

[Gordon]

Another 5 mm overnight so 23 mm for the dates so far.

No precipitation here since the cold air arrived, but feel we might be chance for something later from the showers moving up from the south-west.

[BringOnTheCoolChange]

who would have thought? 4.8c at Yanakie, their weather station is 13m above sea level, it was 3.3c there 40 minutes ago, the temp is rising there now

UPDATE!!! precipitation falling as snow down to 400m, there was a snow shower mixed with hail for 1 minute just now, the snow was floating

[Macedonian]

We got a nice little settled fall.
Hope there is some more on the way. It's sunny now and still only 0.5C
Very cold day.

[hillybilly]

Snowing here now , nice floaty flakes and the sun is sort of out as well.

We just got a shower of snow pellets. Not flakes and not hail or graupel. Were white and fluffy but shapped like little pellets rather than flakes. Quite wierd... 5C currently with a DP near 0C so dry air.

EDIT> Just got a snow shower for a minute or two. Started off as hail then towards the end turned over to snow. Would put the freezing level at about 800m. The dry air is allowing the snow flakes to fall (these stay frozen despite the +ve temperature because the subzero dewpoint keeps them cool through evaporation).

[BringOnTheCoolChange]

Snowing here now , nice floaty flakes and the sun is sort of out as well.

We just got a shower of snow pellets. Not flakes and not hail or graupel. Were white and fluffy but shapped like little pellets rather than flakes. Quite wierd... 5C currently with a DP near 0C so dry air.

EDIT> Just got a snow shower for a minute or two. Started off as hail then towards the end turned over to snow. Would put the freezing level at about 800m. The dry air is allowing the snow flakes to fall (these stay frozen despite the +ve temperature because the subzero dewpoint keeps them cool through evaporation).

It's pretty amazing how low the snow showers are falling, there's just hasn't been a lot of precipitation today so far

[Gordon]

Just had our first 'real' snow for the system, on the back end of a hail and sleet shower as described above by hillybilly.

At 3 C way too warm to settle - I wonder if enough moisture will hang around to make the most of the colder temps after sunset?

Edit: more snow than anything else with that last cell.