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6.9 degrees here now. BoM confirming this is the front coming through. Give it a couple of hours before winds switch to SW probably.

Interesting times...

Lots of single digit temperatures across the state today, even ahead of the cold front, and behind it it's really cold! Just 8 degrees in Warrnambool and 5 degrees near Colac. Ben Nevis is 0 degrees whilst it's only 4 degrees in Ballarat. Here it's 9 degrees in Brighton.

Plenty of showers to come, especially once the flow tends more southwesterly, and that's when we should see those heavy dumpers with lots of hail, similar to what the southwest of the state has been experiencing. I was driving through Caulfield as those showers came through not long ago and there was some small hail in those. So lots more to come!

Snowfalls looking good on and Alps too (they must be having an awesome season so far), and plenty of low level snow being reported, even in the Otways!

Jake Smethurst » Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:38 pm wrote:

Jake Smethurst wrote:Lots of single digit temperatures across the state today, even ahead of the cold front, and behind it it's really cold! Just 8 degrees in Warrnambool and 5 degrees near Colac. Ben Nevis is 0 degrees whilst it's only 4 degrees in Ballarat. Here it's 9 degrees in Brighton.

Plenty of showers to come, especially once the flow tends more southwesterly, and that's when we should see those heavy dumpers with lots of hail, similar to what the southwest of the state has been experiencing. I was driving through Caulfield as those showers came through not long ago and there was some small hail in those. So lots more to come!

Snowfalls looking good on and Alps too (they must be having an awesome season so far), and plenty of low level snow being reported, even in the Otways!

Not many showers behind the front, but that's usually the case.Very dry air currently behind the front. Here's hoping the flow does turn SW, and strong showers develop. I know it's a big ask but bring on sea level snow haha.

I don't want to sound like a hack, but I'm in Scoresby at the moment and the stuff falling from the sky is sleet-like rain (not proper sleet). Car thermometer showing 6 degrees and the 'rain' looks very un-rain like (if that makes sense). It should be snowing on Mt Dandenong very soon..

Should tend more southwesterly in a couple of hours hopefully ... certainly better!

Also getting reports of snow in Lavers Hill ... to be confirmed!

Thunder Hail!!!!

Sun out now and temp rising got down to 8.1c before but its back to 9.0c.
Looks like this may be the last active front for some time, next system looks pretty weak.
Maybe two weeks or more before we get another active system

A few big flakes of snow on the back end of the hail, back to rain now and 4.2c.

Suns out in Hawthorn
Looks like peak hour chaos when that cold air arrives
Sat pic looks GREAT
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Just got some hail here in Bendigo in that rain band. Will translate to snow in the alps.

Just in-between showers, but might mention Graham Creed retweeted one our tweets! Yay! Well I'm happy

Missed it all while in Costco, but was black as a DG on the trip to Ringwood,
so what did I miss.. a few mm's. could hear heavy rain while inside.
who's that Jake..?

Official reports of snow around the Montrose area in that front before. The BoM have confirmed this.

I knew I wasn't crazy earlier when I reported sleetish-rain from Scoresby.

The BoM also saying snow will get down to very low levels tonght, but not elaborating as yet.

Snow has been reported around Kyneton, Ararat and Castlemaine, so it is now dropping well below that 400m in places. Hopefully Mt D gets a good go at some snow later on this afternoon or evening. I noticed that the temperature at Redesdale dropped down to 3.3°C during the front before at 290m ASL. Impressive!

Update from 3AW website, interesting stuff!!!

http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-news-bl ... 3c3b1.html

The only thing that worries me is the direction the rain is coming from. The Otway rain shadow may well be the biggest factor in how much (and if we get) rain tonight. I remember there's been a few times when this happened. It is soooooo annoying.

The Age is now reporting snowfalls in Ballarat, Montrose, Woodend, Yarra Valley, Trentham and the Otways.

Full report and video of snowfall in Otways via following link:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/snow- ... ztwfq.html

Reports of snow between Beaufort and Ballarat again.

Unlucky for the metro area so far. The Otways are killing any chance of getting precipitation.

Australis(Shell3155) » Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:01 pm wrote:

Australis(Shell3155) wrote:
who's that Jake..?

Graham Creed is a weather presenter for ABC. Also studying Meteorology.

Lacking in the showers currently. Flow is too westerly here. Hopefully things get better this evening. Big line of showers and thunder in the northeast at the moment though, a STW is current for that.

Just saw footage on ch9 of snow falling in Emerald.And they are at 300m asl.

Come on showers, get here.I want hail at the very least. Very dissapointed so far

nothing much here today, just cold cold cold, with a light shower about 1.30pm then sunshine on and off the rest of the day...