The Australian Weather Forum

THUNDERSTORM FORECAST
Issued at 11:40 am Wednesday, 13 October 2010,
Valid until midnight on Wednesday, 13 October 2010.

Surface trough over central Victoria will slowly contract eastwards across the
State during the afternoon. A small scale upper trough and very moist conditions
producing widespread instability across the northeast. Expected scatters
thunderstorms and widespread falls of 20-40mm are which could lead to local or
river flooding. Large hail and severe winds with storms today although heavy
rain is of concern.

Skywalker wrote:A big thankyou to all of your best wishes guys, hopefully he takes after his daddy & develops a big interest in the wonderful world of weather. Shane.

I have taught my 3 yr old to tell me "Pink Sky" and "Moon" so if Im busy I have 2 sets of eyes.
One blink and your little Harry will be doing the same thing.

Well still nice steady rain here but radar (as useless as it is) looks to be showing it clearing soon. 14mm now so very nice little rain and hope the rest of the week keep on delivering.

BTW congrats skywalker!

32mm here so far although looks to be easing so might be about it but very happy.

Rhino.

8mm so far

Almost 12 hours of light rain and thick drizzle has netted this total nice soaking rain

Steady stuff falling now but looks like its almost over sadly

Good fall adon not that much up here but nice falls about the place

35mm at Renmark which is just unreal

NE going to to Very well today with rain backed up all the way to hear then another big rain band Thursday night Friday great few days

Steady rain falling atm 18/17c atm

got boosted this morning by some pretty thick drizzle taking the total to 17.6mm all good Now its overcast and mainly dry with the odd flurry of rain but nothing thats going to register!

Scotch mist all day here so far, visibility down to abt 500 metres, very eerie.

Great pics, vid and reports, thanks everyone.

13mm rain overnight. Heavy rain just started to come down again now. Mountains and hills all fogged in.16.5c.Hume Dam 82.66%.

Still a bit to come with a small clearance and then another band coming from the NW.
Echos just being detected at Donald on the 256km radar.
Best falls are obviously for Nth Country and Nth East.

Yeah big falls up there today and tonight

GOT SMASHED by a small, heavy, tropical, thick, down pour my favorite

5m in 6 mins after 8mm in 12 hours

13mm for the day great result looks like thats it till late tomorrow were hope to get that again

Rain easing here now so I'll wait till I know it's actually over before measuring again. I am thinking 16mm is about the mark. So very handy soaking fall with NO puddles.

Rain all over here, lots of black very low clouds hanging about, also very humid to and this air will be hanging around and aiding the cold front tomorrow.

13mm from todays rain, great fall very happy.

If could get that again from the front i would be stoked

Front, cold pool and rain band for Friday looking unreal

Hoping this trough is a sign of things to come this spring summer

13mm today

6.9mm since 9am, which takes the event total so far to 25.6mm. Hoping for more later tonight before a little more on Friday.

Just abit of drizzle today.

Up to around 5mm for the day and still raining. About 15mm for the event.

Not a bad soaking drop ahead of a whopping rain producer in 36hrs.

Dc449 wrote:Just abit of drizzle today.

Same here, hardly stopped all day but only 2.2mm in the guage.

Up to 28.8mm for the two days @ Bendigo (18.4mm yesterday, 10.4mm today). Not sure about home, haven't been out to check the gauge all day as it has been constant drizzle/light rain.

Karl Lijnders wrote:Up to around 5mm for the day and still raining. About 15mm for the event.

Not a bad soaking drop ahead of a whopping rain producer in 36hrs.

Can't wait. How much do you predict will fall over the Melbourne area? Thanks

Got 1mm last night and after a calm foggy overcast start, light steady rain started mid arvo which has ramped up to steady rain atm - still dead calm and water running freely down the roadside gutters. Although no wind, the baro has dropped from 1021 to 1014 hPa since this time last night.

Event total now 5.5mm

Its a big rain blob on Vic radar out this way (E of Metro), involving N, the ranges and us down here - so hoping for many hours of it tonight (hope I havent given us the kiss of death!).

84% in the Hume!!!!!!!! wow, was mid 50's seems like only 3 weeks ago. The Dart Alexia?

Glenmaggie here is 94% and falling (despite the snow melting) - mega flood irrigation happening around the dairy farms here past 2 weeks. If this rain continues for another 6 hours the dam will spill again (a monty anyhow if the Fri/Sat event puts 15+mm up above Licola on top of this present stuff).

Another 10.1mm on the gauge since I left for work at 8am, so up to 16.6 for the event, happy with that... and hoping for double in the next 48.