Wet Christmas 23 to 28 December

[Gordon]

50.5mm here to 9am. Looking at the radar, hoping to make the eastern suburbs run between rainbands, but might be a case of 'Tell 'im he's dreamin'. '

Merry Christmas all, and a happy El Nino .

(Snowfall, you must be looking at a pretty impressive total for 2023? We're doing well, but I think you've beaten us every major rain event.)

[Adam38]

Just on 60mm… I was not expecting anywhere near that amount! Quite a few close lightning strikes late yesterday too.

[StratoBendigo]

Quite a bit more incoming from the NE. Some embedded thunderstorms. One wild day...

Low seems to be centered over Swan Hill at present.

[Didjman]

Getting long rumbles from the north - around Kilmore / Seymour

[Petros]

Nothing to report out this way except persistent fresh easterly breeze and partly overcast. Rain predictions for here have backed off for most models except BOM's which predicts 90mm by Thursday here.

[stevco123]

Great to see BoM doing their bit for once and providing an updated forecast as at 9.30am.

[StratoBendigo]

Getting sketchy here now.

Dunolly just broke its Daily rainfall record (going back to 1881) - 96mm to 9am.

[stevco123]

Partly blue sky here now. Spitting drops a little but nothing fancy. I'm actually thinking we could miss the bulk of the rain as it skirts just to the north, as the low is forecast to move north and then east. Timing, as usual, is everything.

[Dane]

Down in MelbourneToday where there have only been sporadic showers
Back home in Sebastopol my PWS is showing 70mm's since 5pm yesterday
Heaviest 24 hour fall since moved to Ballarat in March 2019

[StratoBendigo]

Flooding around St Arnaud and Wedderburn today. Calder Hwy shut at the latter with many homes impacted.

Weather is clearing here. Maybe some bits and pieces this afternoon...

[Blackee]

Flooding around St Arnaud and Wedderburn today. Calder Hwy shut at the latter with many homes impacted.

Weather is clearing here. Maybe some bits and pieces this afternoon...

Friends in Wedderburn have recorded 120mm. Flooding has occurred. Footy ground/ track fully underwater presently

[Wilko]

Slightly off topic
Canberra radar looks a little alarming

[snowfall]

Incredible amount of rain in these parts. We’ve added a further 64mm today, totalling 143mm since yesterday.

The rain has only just stopped now and there’s even some blue sky to my north. Otherwise it has been raining non-stop since early this morning. We even had a big storm around late morning with torrential rain, flash flooding, thunder and lightning. Haven’t had a chance to go anywhere, so don’t know what the area is looking like, but I’d imagine there’s some flooding about.

Plenty of rain over east central now.

[snowfall]

(Snowfall, you must be looking at a pretty impressive total for 2023? We're doing well, but I think you've beaten us every major rain event.)

I don’t know, I reckon you’ve had some bigger events at times. 2023 was looking fairly ordinary here until the past 3 months. Oct, Nov and Dec have all been above average. December will now be over 240mm, which is an amazing turnaround from the dry winter / early spring. I have to check, but YTD might have even snuck past the 1,000mm mark with this…

[Blackee]

We're approaching 90mm event total to date

[stevco123]

Well i was wrong. 24mm today, amongst the highest in Melbourne metro for now. Frankston is higher at 37mm

[Wilko]

18mm here today...very happy with this
Hard to gauge with looking at the radar...I think I’m going cross eyed...
The Rain may return tonight from NE which is unusual in itself with the low staying in mallee region
Heaps of instability all the way up to BNE with very dangerous cells around at times..happy days for all keen watchers

[Sean]

Merry Christmas all.

Almost 30mm here. Thanks Santa!

[Macedonian]

(Snowfall, you must be looking at a pretty impressive total for 2023? We're doing well, but I think you've beaten us every major rain event.)

I don’t know, I reckon you’ve had some bigger events at times. 2023 was looking fairly ordinary here until the past 3 months. Oct, Nov and Dec have all been above average. December will now be over 240mm, which is an amazing turnaround from the dry winter / early spring. I have to check, but YTD might have even snuck past the 1,000mm mark with this…

That's amazing, Snowfall. Before I finished up on the 15th we had only just crept over the 500mm mark at Bolobek in Macedon. A very lean year. Can't see us making the 750mm av but prob a fair bit closer now than what we were!
We had just over 960mm at home before we came up to bali a week ago. Can't wait to have a look in the gauge when we get home tomorrow. Hope to have leapt over the 1000 mark.

[93ben]

What a stormy night?! Crazy!