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Got a capture of the snowline today - not on a hillside!. The shot was taken from the hume fwy approx 2klms nth of the old hume hwy entrance heading north. No idea of my altitude as didnt check my fone.

http://s30.photobucket.com/user/pkmatter59/media/Snowlineinthesky_zps6bfb08ae.jpg.html

Check the lower precip edge just above the pylons! Time of pic - 1342 today, looking west.
Peter

I took a pic of something similar over North Dandenong late afternoon, but not sure how to upload the pic on here. My rough estimate is that it would have snowed down to about 300-400m under this shower.

And FINALLY... the flow has gone deep southerly. A massive blob moving up now towards the Melbourne area. Hope it holds as it looks juicy.

Too right
The main action was always going to be the steep gradient
from south
Looking forward to some observations as the wind goes SSW

stevco123 » Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:42 pm wrote:

stevco123 wrote:I took a pic of something similar over North Dandenong late afternoon, but not sure how to upload the pic on here.

Look through the other Forum Sections, plenty of info on how to upload shots..

see the buttons up above. ^ img.

Ripper of a winter so far. Very windy but no lightning.

Looking at the Ballarat Obs, it should snow overnight there.

Temp dropping fast here. Now 2 C with what looks like good precipitation heading our way - should know in an hour or so if it's going to hold.

Watching radar with interest! Current temp 3.2 here - might get some white stuff
Cams ready.
Peter

I haven't been this excited in anticipation for a very long time when it comes to weather. There are loads of showers coming. Some could say rain. Temps around the 5-7 degrees in the lowlands and bout 1-3 up higher.Will definitely bee interesting.

Not often we get a mixture of cold temps and extensive rain in the one go. Mount Dandenong should have a nice cover out of it. And most of the central ranges ofcourse.

hillybilly » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:16 pm wrote:

hillybilly wrote:2.6C here now with a Dp of 1.3C, so expect snow with the in bound showers. Will know in about 10 minutes unless they split or collapse around us. Obs would suggest snow down to around 400m, maybe even a little lower. That's consistent with thickness values around 528.

Not often we get solid precip with the coldest air. Last time we had this was back in June 2012 when we got a little bit of settling here to about a cm or so.

if this hold over you I'd say it'll be a bit more than a cm or so lol. There could also be a few surprises at lower elevations me thinks

Just coming up the bayside burbs now..squally wind
C'mon snow in Highett pleeeasee
Wind chill is really something

went for a drive to the shops. In the way home the car thermometer dropped from 7 to 5 degrees in 5 mins with big fat blobs falling on the windscreen.

half melted ice pellets falling at home now.

Heavy sleety rain here, temperature is dropping, just needs to drop one more degree and we could be in business.

Thought it was looking good for your area hillybilly; looks like a prolonged stream of showers on the radar.

First band has fizzled for us - shifted too far east so it's up to the bands further south. Off to bed, it'll be a case of checking outside if I wake during the night...

The cold bay isn't helping

Didjman » Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:54 pm wrote:

Didjman wrote:Watching radar with interest! Current temp 3.2 here - might get some white stuff
Cams ready.
Peter

My car was reading the same temperture as I passed through your area around that time on my way home.

Haven't had much here at home or work today.

is it still going up there geoff or hillybilly?

Just went for a walk 3.2C icy rain, heavy at times with a few odd looking raindrops. Just a tad to warm! Game on 550m plus Macedonian 10 minutes and you'll be in heavy snow

Ferny Creek 16.2mm, Scoresby 5.8mm, about the only time I can say I'm truly happy with this,
Not wanting a boggy back yard.. No snow mentioned on morning tv, only this plane tragedy.

15mm's for me since 9am yesterday. Backyard is very boggy. MTD now 78mm's which is just above the average of 75mm's.
Good to see some low level snow with this system.
Just saw a report of snow on the ground at Narbethong this morning - I think the elevation there is about 350 meters.
No doubt there will be also snow on the ground in Marysville and the Black spur as well.

Just sleety rain for us in the end, haven't checked the gauge yet but would expect 15mm or so. The air mass just didn't come from far enough south for guaranteed snow, (about 55 degrees south going by the synoptic), when 60-70 degrees south would've been needed for real snow.
Some nice pink Cu-Nib anvils lit up by the sunrise this morning passing over the western suburbs, blue skies here now and 4c.
Looking forward to (and needing) a drier spell now for a while, before the next big event which looks to be on our doorstep by the 28th according to AccessG.