Victoria: Thunderstorm Outbreak. October 28th-November 3rd 2009

Cell just clearing here, great stuff! Certainly better than last night. Heavy rain with gutters overflowing at one stage, rolling thunder and plenty of lightning. Scared the daylights out of the dog! lol
Perfect view here in the study looking out the window towards the East. Flashes going non-stop as it makes it's way east.

Getting weak CC's every 10 or so seconds. The odd stronger flash occuring as well. Quite breezy at the moment, perfect on the deck.

lightning is getting very spectacular now. To be under those flangs would be deafening. Massive CG fest getting closer as I type, booms are getting louder. Strobing has just begun, this is happening very quickly and cue the rain!!! Here we go.

norfolk wrote:Lots of rain lightning and thunder here. This is much better than last night!

Just got home too to enjoy it!

The house is lighting up every time a flash occurs! The rain has gotten heavier too!

Great to see Norfy.... been a while out your way hasnt it?

4mm stopped us out over this way as per prev. post. Maybe, just maybe we can catch something in the morning?

Guys, just watch out, i just had a power surge from that cell. Was extremely heavy rainfall and the lightning was insane.

Melbourne Skywalker wrote:Cell just clearing here, great stuff! Certainly better than last night. Heavy rain with gutters overflowing at one stage, rolling thunder and plenty of lightning. Scared the daylights out of the dog! lol
Perfect view here in the study looking out the window towards the East. Flashes going non-stop as it makes it's way east.

Thanks for confirming my excitement! Poor dogs here are barking left right and centre as well! Not mine, I dont own one! But all the neighbours do!

Petros, last night we got close, but it hit more to the south, this was just to the north, but close enough that it felt like it was here!

Really is looking good now. Will fire up more as it enters the CBD and eastern burbs (I suspect that the urban heat island gives these complex extra omph at night).

Should see plenty of 10-20mm totals - maybe more

Not much point heading to bed...

AMAZING strobing, I haven't seen strobing like this for ages

Wow ... just saw a nice crawler>>>

Raining here now and lots of lightning and thunder.

Jase

A building was struck by lightning in Broadmeadows, nothing serious though. MFB in attendance.

Shame the cell isn't a little more south. A few rumbles and flashes out there where I am.

Now hearing thunder, probably still 10km to my west.
Bring it on!!!

I just came back from Edithvale beach and there was non stop CC's and rarely any CG's Wasn't a bad sunset with a Cell both to the left and right of the sun, I will post some pics later.

woo hoo, there's a lake falling from the sky, it's bucketing down like nothing else

Essendon Air - 5mm in quick time.
Rumbles every 15 secs here.
Woofers getting cranky, kids still asleep.

Had amazing Lightning bolts only a few km away,

looks like we got about 5mm out of the storm...thats not bad for this part of town!

Whoo Hoo!!! Sensational sound and light show!

ok, short lived but a great storm!! Enjoy E and SE suburbs, the lightning coming out of the back of it is even better to watch

Just came to post that I saw one massive cg real close in sunbury where I was not ong ago- the crack afterwards was deafening! Constant cc's everywhere! Awesome stuff!l

Rain starting to crank up a notch now. No flangs so far, just CC's observed (however I am in a very secluded area, no great views)

Edot: Rain has dropped off. Seems the main activity is a bit further north, around Warrandyte/Eltham.

Pooring down here!

I could not believe how many bolts were coming out of the back, someone mentioned above. 2 storms in 2 nights, Is this Melbourne?

Rain Started few minutes ago, nothing too heavy yet. some pretty lights in the sky.
.5mm, Karl probably has had 9.5 to my .5 so far.

Turned out to be a fizzer down here in the end, the lightning died off and we had less than a mm of rain. All over here now.