High Temperatures, High Humidity and Storms 26 Feb - Mar 3

[adon]

Showers becoming more frequent here now and some lightning off to the SW. Very tropical feel to the air outside. Could do anything here today.

[HarleyB]

We're now up to 84mm since midnight, and once again the rain has tended back to very heavy. This will go down as a record-breaker for sure. How much should we expect here once this lot visible on radar pass?

I honestly never thought I'd experience anything like this. Thunder very close by. Rain has been constantly heavy since it started. STILL it continues with no real end in sight.

Whiteheads Creek has risen 3m in less than 3 hours however. VERY concerning.

[fireone]

54mm at Alexandra. Radar showing more on the way. 84mm at Seymour so far is a big total!.

[johnno]

Wait til the sun comes up its going to go off even more thru Central Vic

[nafets]

Omg at 84mm! Only 6.5mm here.. Btw its incredibly humid…22c with a dew point of 20.

[HarleyB]

Scrap that 84mm reading, now upto 101mm!! I know it's not 100% accurate, it is with a manual guage though. The official BOM station at Whiteheads Creek reports 94mm to 6:30am, so it must be quite close to the mark.

[johnno]

Unreal Harley!

UK has the heaviest rain through the Western suburbs Today and further west back to Ballarat, GFS and ACCESS through the heart of Melbourne, BOM land and rainfall map similar to UK so be interesting how Today shapes up and pans out

[nafets]

How much rain have you had johnno?

[johnno]

Havent checked yet Stefan will soon though.. Today has Feb 4th and Feb 5th 2011 written all over it for Melbourne and Central Victoria anywhere from Bendigo to Ballarat East through Melbourne to La Trobe Valley

[johnno]

Just over 7.5mm here Stefan

[johnno]

By the way a mate of mine from high schools neighbours house got hit by lightning last night in Sunshine took the roof off lucky no one was home

[93ben]

Wow, what an event and it's still going! Don't know how much rain has falled in Templestowe but it was raining heavily before. It's stoped for now. Anyway the lightning was amazing last night flashing constantly and I managed to get some awesome stills of it. I'll post them latter. I just wonder if more thunderstorms will occur today over Templestowe.

[Meso]

44m at Bendigo Ap overnight and can hear thunder again here now. Expecting some massive HP dumpers today, should be some big totals clocked up.

[fireone]

124mm at the Highlands (private) weather station. Between Seymour, Yea and Alexandra. 78mm at Alexandra. Raining quite heavily. Some minor flooding starting to develop in the north central. Water over roads in some places.

[HarleyB]

You'll catch up to me pretty quickly Fireone! It's unbelievable when you're under them.

Meanwhile, another 5 or so mm since the last update, so just over 105mm so far.

This system, once done and dusted, will go down in history. One for the books most definitely.

[occluded]

A smidge over 8mm here, 93ben. AWS at Viewbank only showing 3.4, but that's to 6am (on WZ) so might be offline?

Wow at the totals around Seymour too, hopefully all is ok up there.

12z GFS looking 'interesting' to say the least, OCF showing about 40mm expected for here today.

[Rhino]

Up to 33mm here so far so I think I'll get my 40mm I thought I'd get. Huge falls already and more to come, and guys I would'nt be laughing at GFS, look at whats already occouring.

Rhino.

[jmw2207]

44m at Bendigo Ap overnight and can hear thunder again here now. Expecting some massive HP dumpers today, should be some big totals clocked up.

I live about 5km south of Bendigo AP and got 60mm in my gauge! Good entree for today.....can relax now and let my tanks continue to overflow.......

BTW starting to really darkening up outside.......air is teeming with moisture....tick tock.....

[fireone]

HarleyB. Yes. We are now up to 88mm (Alexandra) and still pouring down.

All coming from your direction.

[Macedonian]

Incredible rain rate here in muggy macedon. very heavy. has bden for the last 20mins, havent been out to the gauge yet