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lol Petros...sounds like a perfect day. The light over Melbourne for the last hour has been sublime!

This crappy picture just doesn't do this justice. It was amazing outside 20 mins ago

Warranwood! is just to the north of Ringwood

Drizzling here atm, 24mm since 9am, 30mm for the event, tank overflowing again.

Absolutely teeming here! Unbelievable, like everywhere else of course, will let you know how much once it stops.

Warrenwood between Ringwood and Warrandyte..

Just quickly mentioning on another note. It will be worth to pay attention over parts of the south tomorrow, particularly southwest, where there seems to be a bit of an upper disturbance passing on through. Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms will be possible because of this, as well as in the northeast with the other trough moving away from the region.

Australis(Shell3155) wrote:Warrenwood between Ringwood and Warrandyte..

Ah, so the lad hasnt moved far away from the old stomping ground. Still clear here past hour and the cicada's have even wrung out their clacka's!

[edit] - TV went snotty, then the lights dipped bigtime. No lightning nearby so maybe a pole fire?

I agree Jake, was mentioning this earlier, i think tomorrow wont be the day everyone expects. I expect plenty of action tomorrow arvo, Friday with the front, and also Sunday. Going to be a very active topping up week i think.

7.2mm from that burst and now on 22.7mm for the day, and 73.2mm since last Wednesday. YTD is now 961.8mm, getting close to the magical figure.

Bendigo is on 1040mm for the year beating some higher areas of altitude.

Yes, what a way to end the system with some torrential rain!

Got a few more mm, somewhere between 3 and 4 I forgot exactly how much but it's in the gauge right now. over 25mm now for the last two days, Around 63mm for the month.

1184mm for the year now which is getting right up there. Only need another 18mm and it is the wettest year here since at least 1973 and probably one of the wettest years on record. It could easily end up the wettest year here in 150 years going from Macedon Forestry records.

EDIT: I notice Trentham has had around 1400mm so far (averaging Jane and Clyve's stations). The annual average there is around 1100mm I think. Mount Macedon MW station also on 1400mm for the year, (if it's where I think it is, it's around 800m asl)

Final band of rain looming from NW, so heading off to bed to hopefully hear it on the roof.

Karl Lijnders wrote:Heavy rain here in Warranwood! So heavy the street turned into a river! Very nice falls!

Should see some more over the coming hour or two at my new home for month!!

Did you pack a rain gauge? LOL
Up to 26mm here now, 36mm for the event so far and still raining. MTD 79mm

Just got home from a meeting and checked the gauge to find 24mls from this latest rainband.This amount fell in the space of 25 mins.
For those who know Albury,the main st(dean st) was flooded to the centre of the road for most of it.Looks to be another band developing to the NW
so it ain't over yet

Mansfield has had 52mm since midnight.

Not sure if anyone follows this comic, quite fitting I feel though:

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Rain starting to lighten up here, been a great couple of days. In fact couple of months really, starting to think seriously about a weather station...

"When the folks at the weather office see you refreshing the radar too often, they start teasing you."

Absolutely pmsl Greensyboy!!!

Lily wrote:"When the folks at the weather office see you refreshing the radar too often, they start teasing you."

Absolutely pmsl Greensyboy!!!

All quiet here, time for bed. Happy weather/radar watching Maybe if you all refresh it a bit more the rain might come my way

Random weather stat for the day: Bendigo's rainfall 2010 YTD is 200mm more than Ballarat's. It's usually the reverse.

Some amazing rainfall about the state the last few days. 130mm up in the NE with rain still falling.

Around 35mm here in Warranwood judging by Chris's WS. Similar back at home. Some stunning rainfall.

Light rain continues.