New Years Week: becoming hot and humid with possible storms

[I_Love_Storms]

Bloody hell that is hectic!!!

[I_Love_Storms]

This line is doing its best to break up, I thought it would have been bigger at this point, ah well if something does happen to it there should still be quite a bit of rain in the band.

[dagget]

Certainly closing in on us from the SW and the S, very impressive still warm here at 28C

[Dane]

Coming thru a lot faster than i thought, Could be here in another 30 mins

[mick]

First CC!

[droughtbreaker]

Absolutely frightening out there, nothing less. Wind starting to really gust up, temp has dropped 3 degrees in an instant and sky is like one of those US stormchasing documentaries.

Hope for a bucket load of rain but no damage hopefully.

[dagget]

Couple of shots of it on approach to me..

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[Dane]

Wind round to the west now, had a gust to 31 knots. Temp still 32c.

[Pengaz]

Oh this is just cruel-intense little cell skirting just to our South whiting out Longford. Strong outflow winds here now, been really entertaining to watch. Had a couple of close strikes nearby as well.

Heres a few more pics of the cell passing to our south:

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[dagget]

Wind change is here now, and has got awful dark, just waiting for the rain.....

[Bobman]

Rain just started here. Nice light show too.

Cats have run in and are terrified!

[SC.]

She's starting to fire up here.

[dagget]

Looks like Melb will get this before us given the shape of the band !!

[Leasy]

Holy hell, sky is as black as! About to hit big time - gotta fly to the hospital for 5 minutes - will update more when I return!

[mick]

Had about 10 min of photo ops before the rain arrived in big drops. Some nice crawlers that I didnt get and a few Cgs also missed.

Oh BTW, I want me prize for calling 9.30 in the city!

[Dane]

Thunder here now, and plenty of cc lightning, one Cg

[adon]

A bit of lightning out to the west but not really looking too severe or even wet really. Storms are only very thin so may not get too much. South of here is a little hard to tell because of the crappy radar coverage but South of Birchip looks like a very nasty line down there. Of well morning will tell.

[droughtbreaker]

It's exploding over my head now, particularly in the northern half of the sky. Huge flashes to the west, the whole western sky just went fiery pink.

[mick]

Windy light rain, still big drops, no torrential bucketing.

[Bobman]

It's pelting down here. Beautiful, just beautiful.

Driving rain, rumbles and a touch of flash.