Storms and rain Feb 25th-March 2nd.

[weathergasm]

Yep, the sea breeze is an absolute doozy today (and I say this living in St Kilda). Forget about storms if you're in almost any part of the metropolitan area.

You win some you lose some.

[Pane]

G'day

Well 2 hours ago I thought we were in for right smashing again like last Thursday but it all got going and now it's all decaying away. Why is that???

Hoping for a good drop here to back up last Thursday. Grass has come back strong and the towns lake is being pumped againso any help from above makes that even better.

Cheers

[stratospear]

Bank of stratus just pushed into the CBD. Looks to be at about 300m so very low level. Have heard reports of sea fog to the south around Cape Liptrap.

You can see it on the Vis satpic:
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North Central Vic should see some decent storm action in the coming few hours IMO.

[weathergasm]

That's just life when you live as close to the coast as Melbourne is. But it's been a great week or so for people living in north Central, they are JUST far enough away from the sea breeze storm killer to make sustained development possible.

Of course if the sea breeze were to die *looks at watch* RIGHT NOW Melbourne may be in with a chance. Stranger things have happened.

[wolfcat]

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for HEAVY RAINFALL, DAMAGING WIND and LARGE HAILSTONES

For people in the
North Central and parts of the
Central and
Northern Country Forecast Districts.
Issued at 4:40 pm Monday, 25 February 2013.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding, damaging winds and large hailstones in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Bendigo, Seymour, Daylesford, Castlemaine, Kyneton and Yarra Glen.

[James]

DP 19.5 here?? wow !!

[Rhino]

Holy bugger, just got 17mm out of that storm and still some more rain to come. Haven't check the weather station for particulars but needless to say the backyards a dam now .

Rhino.

[typhoon29]

we are about to get smacked by the storms, no STW for Ballarat???? We had a small storm earlier at about 3:30pm.

[James]

north west sky looking dirty and stormy misty...how is that sea breeze, is that what is killing development in the suburbs today? - how does one find the measurements to see if its stopping or too strong?

[Didjman]

recorded 37C 81%RH at 1430 here! We now have sw breeze. storm outflow??.
Peter

[johnno]

David I can see some convection fresh convection over the Western sky above the low cloud now so should see some development towards Geelong and Avalon within the next 90 mins I would say

[occluded]

A report in the age today saying Melbourne city has had an equal record number of 30+ degrees days in February. If we get to 30 today it will beat this record. Looks like the seabrezze kicked in at the right time

Well maybe not for Melbourne AWS, but would there be some sort of record of 30+ days for the rest of the Melbourne area?

Got to 34.9 / 19.7 at 3.20p before the southerly kicked in and currently it's 27.4 / 19.2

Hoping that seabreeze doesn't kill it off this time! Got a cell developing around Kinglake moving towards the SW that I'm keeping half an eye on

[Instability]

Been watching the up drafts either side of King Lake - now showing red on the radar. Will be interesting to see if they continue to track SSW. If they do they are heading straight for me

[Geoff]

Yes I'm watching those storms too Rog, it's almost a carbon copy of this time last Thursday when they were marching down from the north and stopped dead just on the northern fringes of the Dandenongs, lets see if these cells have more balls!
I can hear thunder...

[tre75]

quick development of cell just north of geelong, looks like quite a bit has developed and is moving quite quickly against the very strong seabreeze down this way, it had potential just was unsure, now im hearing thunder .. bring it on!

[greensyboy]

Cells starting to pop up west of the bay, after the sea breeze went through, would've been interesting if the breeze wasn't as strong. Need to see if anything comes down off the ranges on the east, here's hoping!

[Didjman]

Bit off topic: I am about to become the Official BoM Rain recorder for Broadford! Will then submit rainfall readings for here(reliable gauge).
Peter

[tre75]

more interesting is the fact it going against it and against everyone who has mentioned .. oh seabreeze and all that, frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it does the same thing in other areas too

[Australis(Shell3155)]

Sounds good Didjman..

[Rhino]

Have had 19mm so far today, weather station had a rain rate of 71mm per hour and 12mm in 15 mins during the storm and was the best storm in a while in terms of rainfall. Like the other storms over the last fortnight been developing on our doorstep so have been in the right spot and up to 40mm for the month.

Rhino.