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Not a drop here on the north side of Mt D. Off to water the veggies and hope we get something later this week.

Gordon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:27 am

hillybilly wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:37 am Btw had our first frost fro the year here on Tuesday. Impressive to score one on March 9. Thinking we will see some cracking frosts here come winter

Not bad for 25m asl! I wonder if there are any mainland sites which have scored what's effectively a 'sea level' frost that early in autumn?

The last system had a nice tail on it for us and we've ticked up to 57mm. Useful totals look 'locked in' to accumulate over this thread , which will make a genuine autumn break here. (The local farmers consider rain before St Patricks Day (17 March) to be too early for a true break, but forecasts have top-ups keeping the new growth green.)

Just as significantly, it seems to have been the summer/autumn boundary - we've been sub 20C since the 5 March, and I can't see anything above 25C from here.

Did live in Millicent South Australia as a teenager and recall a frost in January. Not common but not unheard of. Some quite good frost hollows out there with shallow soils over limestone and undulating landscape.

Upsliding southeasterly to easterly flow here today and tomorrow. 2mm so far, with a murky cloud base running near sea Level. Expecting locally heavy falls, which would be welcome after a real hit miss couple of months. Some spots have had over 200mm ytd and others around 25mm.

Messy pattern back over VIC, with showers and storms hit and miss.

Dane wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:34 pm Where are all the posters. Pretty active conditions at the moment in some areas but no posts.

No one's going to bother posting when there's sweet bugger all happening in their area, which has been the case for the majority of us.

Despite the impressive lightning show from the surrounding storms we received absolutely nothing down here on the island, and obviously there was zero happening back in the western boredom zone.

Lots of watering awaiting my return tonight unless of course some miracle happens & it actually rains.

42.2mm as the final official figure to 9am in the Cranbourne South East Water gauge. 44mm in my manual gauge.

Was at moonlight cinema and all the outflow boundaries collided and bang storms heavy in SE burbs but many others nothing very local but light show was great

Next 4 days warm humid arvo stroms just the best summer so many storm days why cant every summer be like this we be begging for this type of weather in 2-3 years as we return to drought dry changes dust and fires.

Very local and unexpected yesterday next 4 days lots more around

8mm last night with storms but much more to my SW with flooded roads last night

10ml or so in Frankston.
A few photos from Mt eliza and gunnamatta for the Aurora Australis + more lightning.
Mt Eliza
Lightning 13th March-1 by Robert Mitchell, on Flickr

Lightning 13th March-4 by Robert Mitchell, on Flickr

Lightning 13th March-5 by Robert Mitchell, on Flickr

Gunnamatta Beach
Lightning 13th March-7 by Robert Mitchell, on Flickr

Aurora 14th March-1 by Robert Mitchell, on Flickr

Aurora 14th March-4 by Robert Mitchell, on Flickr

another day of storms skirting around ....arghh!

Great shots Windyrob
12mm..nice drop with lightning and thunder for 4hrs

stevco123 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:16 pm 42.2mm as the final official figure to 9am in the Cranbourne South East Water gauge. 44mm in my manual gauge.

Great total Stevco

James wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:08 pm another day of storms skirting around ....arghh!

Yep, manual watering here I come.

CU going up around Melbourne now

i just put a whole lot of washing out not more than an hour ago, lets see if that makes it storm big here!

I am so bored haha

Cell around Kew so there’s hope

https://www.flickr.com/photos/89942532@ ... res/97t3L5

not a drop and so manually flooding the garden and vegies again - so frustrating, you would think we would have our turn by now?

Good storm here this evening. Lots of close range lightning and big thunder. Had a brief power surge as well. Only 0.8mm though. I was up in Gisborne when it developed and it was absolutely pelting down there with huge drops and hail mixed in, but just light rain here.

Noisy little storm passing just to the west, 15mm in a gauge 2km west of me.

James wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 6:43 pm not a drop and so manually flooding the garden and vegies again - so frustrating, you would think we would have our turn by now?

Yes you would think the constant whinging would do the trick.

Well there is your answer why it is quiet in here, every time i post someone has to whinge that i am whinging, so in the end i may as well not be here!!!

someone asked why it was so quiet in here, well maybe because - nothings happening where people are located, or when they do comment in frustration about it, its called whinging.

its all communication and part of it...

i posted photos and other things in the past and nobody even makes so much as a comment so - I was amazed as one of the photos was quite notable.. I was here since the beginning, and same with the old weatherzone back in the karl days, so one more person leaving this very last of the last pages after well, over 22 years of posting on them...good luck you can talk to yourselves in future.

so long, please delete account...

Northern part of Bendigo is getting smashed atm. Storm developed quickly and is moving from NE to SW. Not sure if we'll get much.

Decent outflow and lightning show though.