Melbourne and Victoria daily weather commentary

This is the thread for everyone's day to day comments and observations around the state. What was the weather like where you were today? Post your local weather details here or anything interesting or unusual that you have observed.

It is 17C here currently and mostly cloudy and cloud continuing to increase from the west. Got to 18.3C so far for a maximum which would be the warmest day here for a long time and just a bit crazy for late May.

Well back at home now after a fantastic holiday up in Cairns and Port Douglas. A wonderful spot and I reccomend it to anyone wanting to get away. It is still humid up there, and with the highs in the Bight it is triggering some onshore showers, but some good sunny days as well. I went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef - one of the best things I have ever done. On a negative note though, Jetstar have some working to do since both flights with them (up and back) were delayed by more then an hour both times. On the way up they were late with paperwork, about 10 mins delay, then we had to wait on the ground for departures and landings for 40 mins... on the way back though it really wasn't their fault, the plane up was delayed because of fog in MElbourne, but then again it was delayed for 10 mins because of paper work and they had to get some other bloke on the plane to check something. The flight on the way home was very rough. THe seatbelt sign remained on for most of the 3 or so hours. Worst turbulence I had ever been on. The pilot said that he could not get out of it, the winds at about 33,000 ft below were just strong as thanks to that low up north. Anyway, a good holiday in the end, now back to reality. Lol.

Welcome home Power Storm, glad you had a great holiday except for the flights. Hope you had an awesome birthday too

Perhaps worth documenting that Melbourne yesterday had its hottest Day between late May and late July on record with 22.8C. Would have gone for a swim at the beach if I wasn't so busy.

Thanks Rivergirl.

Well its blowing very strong northerly winds here now. Looks quite stormy as well, though no rainfall to speak of this morning and most of its still over in South Australia, shifting SE. Eventually it will start here, later today, just a couple of light showers to start.

Generally cloudy here today with strong north to northeast winds, tended more northwest this afternoon and tonight. Temperatures were in the high teens, around 19 for a maximum today. Rainfall generally stayed behind the SA border today as forecasted, though will move into Victoria overnight.

Well it was a partly cloudy day as forecasted. We had 21mm to 9am this morning, so a good amount there from the previous rain event. No rain since 9am apart from a few spots here and there driving back home as a new 'learner' driver. I scored 100% on my test. Temperatures today were around 17-18 here.

Max yesterday of 12C with 7C overnight in Ferny Creek. A bit of fog and a decent dew but no rain to report.

Max temp here of 14.1c with 4mm's from light drizzly showers this afternoon

Max temp of 12.3C with fog this morning and areas of drizzle this afternoon clicking up over 5mm so far.

Good to hear your getting some Dane.

Max of 10.6C in FC yesterday. Plenty of fog during the afternoon/evening and a total of 3.9mm of drizzle (trees intercept a lot before it gets to the gauge in fine drizzle). Got a ripper shower just on leaving home this morning (~6:40) with icy drop is a few specs of hail. Very small though - not showing on the radar.

Further 2mm of drizzle and fog today in Ferny Creek. First cold day for May with a max of 9.7C.

No recordable rain here after 9am, nice chilly day though with a top of 13.5c

Generally clear here today with light winds. 3mm in the gauge to 9am and 3.2 i nthe gauge yesterday to 9am.

Rather mild up here last 24 hours with a max of 11.3C yesterday. Down to 6.8C overnight with a very thick fog tending to light drizzle at times. 0.3mm in the gauge this morning to add to 2.2mm the day before.

Some reasonable rainfall along the coast and nearby ranges - main south/west Gippsland and Otways with BALOOK on 18.2mm, MT WELLINGTON on 13.4mm and OMEO on 6.2mm.

Quite a bit of drizzle here starting at about 6am but has stopped now 2.2mm's all up taking the monthly total to 18.2mm's (ave 69mm's) Yearly total now 169mm's. Yesterday max was 14.8c and it got down to 6.2c just after midnight. Currently 10.4c with a light ESE breeze.

Well I woke up to 185mm in my rain gauge overnight Can't think of an explanation for that, I'll blame it on the possums

Looks to be about 20mm in Moe in the past 24hrs and still coming down hard.

Rained the whole way from Pakenham to Moe. Clear to the south however.

Strange day up here. Started with thick fog and drizzle which cleared by about 9am then returned for lunch and then cleared again. Max of 11C.

Can clearly see the rainshadow from the Strzelecki Ranges in the obs, showers then make it up though the Latrobe Valley into the southern Melbourne suburbs and then again up here we are rain shadowed.

Anticipate the fog to roll in again tonight.

It was generally sunny here today after morning fog and light frost, though the odd shower appeared as I drove out near Warrnambool today. Light winds as well for most of the day, however it freshened towards this evenin a little, now it has eased back. I was freezing today, despite the temperature here being in the high teens like previous days, I am not sure why I felt cold.

A chilly one up here last night with hill fog on and off - currently 5.9C with 95% RH and temp still dropping. Currently it's clear but a thick bank of fog sits ~100m down the hill - while in contrast its ~2C warmer 150m up the road and the humidity is just 75%. Anticipate the fog will move up as the sun slowly warms it.

Still foggy here vis about 200m, should lift soon to a mostly sunny day, got down to 6.7c last night, now 8.7c.

1.9C minimum here and now a sunny day.

Not much more to say than that.

No fog here this morning. I drove out to pick up my sister with my mum today for about 2 hours. At the moment I really like driving.

Generally sunny all day and warm when that sun hits you.

Another mild one in FC with 12.0C yesterday and 0.2mm of rain. Caps off the second driest May on record and also very mild for us with only one sub-10C day.

Despite the mild sunshine had dew all day in the garden as RH didn't get below 90%.