Victoria: Showers and Storms: 6th - 8th November 2010

[Alexia]

Was a lot of thunder and lightning last night about 0200hrs and again 0500hrs. We had 9mm rain that was really good BUT not looking forward to 50-150mm the ABC weather just said for us this weekend. See the Hume Dam is 99.78% this morning and going up so not letting it go yet.People below the wall had minor flooding last week.

[Blackee]

Congrats to all who covered yesterday' event (either on the road or at home).
Keep up the great effort of reporting your obs as we have a very busy fortnight ahead!!

[Australis(Shell3155)]

The Spiders moved in here..
found 2 this morning, haven't had any inside for ages..
Dirty Black ones.

[Petros]

We had distant thunder and one brief heavy rainfall at 3am. Cooler and fine/calm here this morning 1012 hPa. Rain total about 2mm.

The met office at E Sale advised that storms will occur Bairsdale-border both on ranges and in S today. A chance only, for us in N Gippy later on today and humidity rising steadily for the rest of week and a stormy day Fri. He mentioned things could get interesting on the weekend.

After the 30C day yest, this morning the S side of the shed is covered in lokey shells, an early start to cicada season!

[AUS_Twisted]

Thanks Karl, those cells looked nice in the afternoon light on the way home but I was a bit late by the time I got home and had something to eat to go back out.

Some pics from Yarra Glen area yesterday





Backbuilding behind that huge cell




Anything west of here died off pretty quick


Think this was the main updraft area and behond going up into the huge anvil


Wider shot in HDR

[Blackee]

Thanks to the Bureau!

24 Hour Rainfall to 9am:
Thunderstorms and showers occurred, mainly in the east of the state. Rainfall
totals over the western half of the state were generally less than 2mm.
Rainfall in the eastern half of the state ranged from generally 1 to 5mm in the
south, to 5 to 15mm in the north. There were numerous higher totals about the
northeast ranges as a result of severe thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and
evening, which included 42mm at Temagong, 30mm at McQuinns Weir, 28mm at Upper
Buckland, 27mm at Yarck, 25mm at Cheshunt and 20mm at Moorngag.

[Blackee]

THUNDERSTORM FORECAST
Issued at 11:52 am Monday, 8 November 2010,
Valid until midnight on Monday, 8 November 2010.

Surface trough moving slowly through the northeast with warm an moist northeast
to northwest winds ahead of the trough providing a very unstable environment.
Expected thunderstorms to be scattered in the northeast along the trough. Severe
thunderstorms with hail, heavy rain and strong winds will be a risk onece
thunderstorms get going by early afternoon. Storm risk less along the coast as
the surface trough pushes in to the foot of the ranges reducing instability.

[Macedonian]

Yikes, sounds like Ruckles car copped a hammering. People here reported hail as big as gumballs yesterday. I wasnt home so i missed the lot, I was on the 46th floor of the sofitel and had a pretty good view to the north-west.

[Jake Smethurst]

Nice pics everyone!

Just a partly cloudy day here with generally mild conditions. Fairly warm when the sun comes out.

Already some shower and thunderstorm activity towards the northeast of the state, should mainly affect areas east of a line Wangaratta to Orbost.

[Twister]

Some weak storms moved through here last night with some nice bolts and crawlers also had a heavy shower that lasted about a minute so provided some excitement

Storms fired up again to my NE E this morning but have all moved well away now

[mick]

Geexe louise, look at all those pics! Some from new members too which is great to see. That cell, unfortunately yesterday it was about when there was no sat coverage of the area in near real time. it showed as a small white cicrcle at one stage on the vis sat about an hour before the photos of the MINI TORNADO, but none of the infrared etc was anywhere near it. A small pic in todays herald sun of a tennis ball and 3 cm ish hailstones for comparison taken near Romsey I believe.

Nothing down here yesterday, not a drop. Reeds are 20 foot tall in the wetlands and grass in the paddocks is 10 feet high.

[AUSSKY]

"ahem" - photos of a 'mini tornado'????????????

[Meso]

Nice work on those pics Steve!

[AUSSKY]

Hi all weather lovers !....Here are some pics of Sunday's storm chase through the Central Ranges Victoria...This was a spectacular storm and provided the opportunity to study the life cycle of an Australian supercell...
http://www.stormchasers.au.com/07_11_10.htm

best regards Clyve and Jane...

[Supercellimpact]

Great report Jane and Clyve.

[I_Love_Storms]

Awesome stuff guys! Some amazing images on there. It is amazing that a storm like that formed on a day where the ingredients were there, but by no means extraordinary.

[Blackee]

Brilliant reporting and captures Jane & Clyve.
The December'10 ASWA meeting may need to run 24hrs! (At least Pancake Parlour is open 24/7)

[rikjpool]

Absolutely amazing guys! Cant wait to see all the footage and hear all of Clyve's "Is the camera running jane?!?!" Commentaries...

[Anthony Violi]

Will struggle to get 28 today IMO...but I expect widespread convection this arvo with this cold air this morning.

[AUSSKY]

Have added some further information to the page and will update it over the next few days...last night added MSL, radar and satpic loop on the link to the photos below

http://www.stormchasers.au.com/07_11_10.htm



Jane