Victoria: Broad area of low pressure - November 19th-25th 2009.

1mm in a minute @ Mildura. No hugely gusty winds, but decent rainfall rates!!

Left a Dry Warburton at 10.45, few drops on the windscreen ground was dry. Didnt see any moisture till Launch.
Arrived home to a welcome 21mm on WS.
Was some lights/power out in Mt Evelyn. 11 pages to read.

Another 3mm here and still coming down to make it 44mm for the night so far. Hmmmm 50mm beofre midnight is not going to happen but a nice try.

Now we wait for the rain over the NW. I am off to bed!!

Slow solid drops outside atm. Good for sleeping, night all.

Not much since last post. Karl, time to get you an online weather station so we can all watch

Time to snooze a tad, we are on 32mm! Would be brilliant to crack 50mm by morning, but hey, am very happy with evidence so far. Best result for sure, in my little space, this year, no doubt.

Melbourne likely to score 35-40mm before the main rain arrives. The bay being so warm is throwing plenty of low cloud and heavy drizzle amongst the rainfall.

Heavy drops starting here again and looking like another quick fire 5-10mm here from the north with another convective shower moving slowly down!!

Heavy rain is around Horsham moving into the Grampians with another band of intense rain still well west of Adelaide.

Lot more rainfall to come!!

Next to nothing in Lilydale, and yet Mt Dandenong which is not far away: 25mm.

Big "blob" approaching Mildura looks ominous. If that hits a mountain range (North Central Vic???), deluge of epic proportions???

Had 32mm by 11pm, now im up to about 45mm. And people are saying there's a main course to come

26mm here in Elwood. Amazing the degree to which the radar is underestimating rain rates at least here. Still pouring. Good luck to all.

The "blob" is beginning to deliver big rainfall totals along the Murray. Mildura is up to 29mm, belting down in Swan Hill too...

There could be several "waves" of heavy rain to arrive yet. Spencer Gulf region in SA is getting drenched atm.

45.4 at Essendon Ap.... that's the most rain in a single day that i can remember since i've been living here in the past 2 years..... well i'll be.

39.5mm Extremely impressed with the totals everyone is getting..
Off to check how full those tanks are.
Tanks Full and overflowing, time for sprinklers before this next lot comes through.

Greg Sorenson wrote:45.4 at Essendon Ap.... that's the most rain in a single day that i can remember since i've been living here in the past 2 years..... well i'll be.

Morning all, was about to say the same thing Greg. I haven't seen figures like these in the 2 area's I've lived (Caroline Springs & Epping) for a really long time, and by that I mean at least a couple of years! Rain gauge was almost up to the actual rim (past reading display markers) when I checked 10 minutes ago. We have had about 42mm here all up.

My rain guage is off the air but my nearest AWS (Melb airport) is saying we have had over 51.4mm WOW!!

Jase

Well there you go, 22mm over night (between midnight and 7am), up to 26mm and still raining , might be something in this for us Andrew after all

Quick edit, I slightly ran over the rain gauge with the mower yesterday and broke the top of it so I am probably underreading given the amount of water around and the full birdbath.

43mm here so far and here comes the daylight band, just about to hit. It's moving very quickly though, unlike last night. Karl do you think that's the leading edge of the low as it starts to bomb?

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back on topic; light rain is slowly turning to steady rain once again. I think I might hit 50mm by 9AM. Well I'm hoping to.

Today I'm buying a rain gauge.

Well what an awesome drop!! Models were spot on, 50mm falls all over the place..mind you, it was an easy one for the models given the intense heat and the upper cold pool.

And as i posted on the 3rd when some poeple were having a sook about the fine spell to come, and Karl said dont count your chickens yet, the heat was a blessing. The cold air worked its way in and here we are talking about our best event in ages. And next week looks even better.

23mm here so far which given the heavy stuff was to our west is excellent. Last night coming home at 10pm the Eastern freeway was like the Eastern Waterway, flooding everywhere! Still more to come yet too.

Yeah, Dagget. All of my whingeing and drama paid off in the end.

Around about 32mm here, can't be exact yet because the Nylex gauges overflow at 26mm but I reckon there was about 5mm or 6mm extra at the bottom. Back to light rain now after a very heavy downpour just before. Didn't get much sleep, kept waking up through the night thankfully to heavy rain so had to get up again and then back to bed.

Not sure about the rest of the day. Models and BOM suggest another burst of heavy rain through the morning before easing off in the afternoon. The low is still back in western VIC with an interesting line of convective looking precipitation through SW VIC atm with the SW change. Potential for that line to be the heaviest of the lot but we'll just have to wait and see.

Might have to drive down to Bullengarook today, could be some flash flooding there after 91mm in around 12hrs.

Also reckon the Maribyrnong would be experiencing some fairly fast rises with 30-40mm in the upper catchment, 50-60mm in the middle catchment and 40-50mm in the lower catchment in relatively quick time.

Look like it isn't over yet either, justifiable sook as well from my point of reference, going to bed with only 4mm after everthing else that was happening was too much like all the other recent events for us, had to get up ealy when I heard all the rain as I thought I would miss it all!

As Karl mentioned in an earlier post, even the gaps between rain bands there is quite solid drizzly rain. Radar showing up some patchy white over us but still coming down solidly. Doppler doesn't pick up small drops well.

What a ripper. The best event for the year (mind you it has been a crap year!). Up to (about) 46mm (event 49mm) and still coming down thickly. Was looking for 50mm, so anything from here is a bonus Has been the best sort of rain thick and steady for >12 hours with hardly a break, and for the most part not heavy enough to runoff.

Next 6 hours are really interesting as we should go into SW convergence/wrap around on the back side of the low. With a record hot bay this has the potential to drop some very heavy (Sydney time rainfall). EC has 25mm for us in 4 hours (but doesn't get the topography right - too flat). Could well see an event total by 100mm by 3pm if it goes to plan.

BTW pleased to see almost no one miss out on a decent drop - only the far west has really dudded so far but they are now getting decent rain.

BTW here's the latest (top) hydro obs. Should see a few 100mm+ totals by 9am.

Station Sensor Station Rainfall Period Local Quality Basin Catchment State
Number Number Name (mm) (hrs) Time Flag Name Name
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587044 1 BULLENGAROOK 94.6 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 06:59:18 Derived Obs WERRIBEE RIVER LERDERDERG VIC
587019 1 TOOLERN VALE 89.2 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 06:59:44 Derived Obs WERRIBEE RIVER TOOLERN CR VIC
88071 1 BULLARTO SOUTH 63.4 20.7 Sun 22-11-2009 05:39:00 Derived Obs WERRIBEE RIVER LODDON RIV VIC
586257 1 EUMEMMERING CK AT NARRE W 62.0 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:56:39 Derived Obs BUNYIP RIVER EUMEMMERIN VIC
587014 1 BULLA (MW) 59.4 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 06:57:43 Derived Obs MARIBYRNONG RIVER DEEP CREEK VIC
587130 1 KOROROIT CK AT DIGGERS RE 58.4 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:56:59 Derived Obs WERRIBEE RIVER KOROROIT C VIC
83085 0 MT HOTHAM AWS 58.2 22.3 Sun 22-11-2009 07:19:00 As Observed MITCHELL RIVER (VIC) VIC
586199 1 BERWICK MW 57.0 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:55:54 Derived Obs BUNYIP RIVER CARDINIA C VIC
587116 1 JACKSONS CK AT SUNBURY 56.6 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:56:17 Derived Obs MARIBYRNONG RIVER JACKSONS C VIC
587015 1 MARIBYRNONG R. AT MARIBYR 55.6 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:55:48 Derived Obs MARIBYRNONG RIVER MARIBYRNON VIC
587051 1 ST ALBANS MW 54.4 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 06:57:50 Derived Obs WERRIBEE RIVER MARIBYRNON VIC
86282 2 MELBOURNE AP 52.0 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 07:00:00 As Observed MARIBYRNONG RIVER MARIBYRNON VIC
83084 0 FALLS CREEK AWS 51.6 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 07:00:00 As Observed KIEWA RIVER KIEWA RIVE VIC
586200 1 MOONEE PONDS CK AT JACANA 51.0 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:54:10 Derived Obs YARRA RIVER MOONEE PON VIC
86282 1 MELBOURNE AP 50.8 21.0 Sun 22-11-2009 06:00:00 As Observed MARIBYRNONG RIVER MARIBYRNON VIC
586096 1 HAMPTON PARK 50.6 22.0 Sun 22-11-2009 06:59:52 Derived Obs BUNYIP RIVER HALLAM CON VIC
586090 1 CARDINIA CK AT OFFICER 50.0 21.9 Sun 22-11-2009 06:53:53 Derived Obs BUNYIP RIVER CARDINIA C VIC

Going to go for a quick drive today as well but to Trentham, have to see how much water is over the new block of land to get an idea where the house can go, last time it looked excellent with a little dam forming along the front and side fencelines - will need to expliot that to good effect.

I am impressed too that instead of no rain between bands we are getting the drizzle, not often the radar is less optimistic then reality.

46mm here .
Lets hope this wrap around does its stuff
Poor Johnno, away when his joint cops 2 inches!!!
Off to Blackburn & Sparkes Reserve to take some photos.