It showed signs of rotation but never fully matured like the meso you spotted earlier. That early one was a clear rogue rotating meso.
BoM now got the pre-empt Severe thunderstorm and weather warnings. No choice really with this Jet stream powered outbreak. The speed at which some of these cells will appear and travel during the next 12 hours will be Incredible.
Horts wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 9:06 pm
Safety Beach towards Portsea, sorry for the quality. Taken on a phone haha. Constant out there. Stormy skies and sandy feet nothing better
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Am I over excited or is there a funnel and wall cloud to the right of pic??
Long time no post....
Anyhooo, just wanted to report that we just got smashed by a cell. 200mm/hr rain rate. 22mm in short order. Gutters couldn't cope, lots of water in the sheds, and rivers running down the block. Too dark too see any other "damage"
Huge event out west tonight training cells and lots of them, tending to heavy thunderay rain in the morning hours
Will be quite a few 50-100mm falls by 9am tomorrow i think, just torrentail rain with these stroms
Stawell 47mm last hour
Mildura up to 21mm with 2 smalls cells, 15mm in 10 mins parents places flooded in back room
Lots more storms forming and trainging and lots more to develop in the coming hours
Nice fall Gordon will easy get that agin tonight lots more to come
On and north of ranges going to do well tonight
NE get smashed easy 50 to 80mm with many in the 100 to 150mm mark in spots up there tomorrow and tomorrow night lots of heavy rain there
5-15mm for Melb up to 25mm in spots should get heavy burst in the morning
LOVING the warm humid windy MAY, beats cold air and SW any day
Stawell's now over 50mm in little more than an hour!
Meanwhile, pleasantly surprised how well we've done given rain-shadowing probs we often have with systems from the north (we are about 15km south of the Divide). I think HB mentioned earlier that NW rain is worst for this; directly from the N may be better?
I don't think I've seen the sky so clear with that many stars visible in quite a few months now. No sign of rain at all down here. Not complaining though. It's been green the whole summer here
Jasmine, HB, Jake,
I've got a great vantage point down the beach this evening waiting for the lightning but any idea whether it's worth waiting or do you think it'll be like the early hours of the morning ?
ustralian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Victoria
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
for DAMAGING WINDS and HEAVY RAINFALL
For people in Central, Northern Country, North Central and parts of Mallee, South West and Wimmera Forecast Districts.
Issued at 1:41 am Thursday, 2 May 2019.
Weather Situation:
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds and heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Bendigo, Seymour, Maryborough, Ballarat, Geelong and MELBOURNE .