Victoria: Record Warm/Severe Cold Front August 15th-August 17th 2009

Great photo Robyn. Explains why out power flickered on and off for about 3 hours (reckon we had about 10-20 blackouts/brownouts) during this period. Shame about that tree - was a really pretty one.

Looks like a few showers coming up from the SW for central areas. No more rain overnight in Ferny Creek - so event totals stands at 8.6mm.

Just under 8mm for the event here. Little disappointed that nothing more eventuated early morning, nor does much look like happening today.

Well we got a nice dumping up here!!! Woke up Sunday morning after a bit of drizzle. Went to church then out to sisters house for a late lunch till about 730pm. When I woke up this morning to lots of puddles around the house found an amazing 32mm in the gauge!!! Was certainly not expecting that much!!!

Checked this morning and 26mm for the event, hopefully more to come too this week.

Some great falls there guys. I am happy to hear that some follow up falls occured through 2/3rds of the state especially along the divide.

Must be nice and green up your way Rikki cosidering it was green when I was there a month ago.

(BTW will be visiting soon, I will send you a text message later )

Nice and green yep.

Look forward to that mesage.

Thanks guys

During the past week we have had 37.2mm of rainfall, that is two systems.

Another 1.5mm between 8:30pm and 10:30pm last night, final total 23mm.

Also very green up here. Still rather brown and dead looking right through the western suburbs but then greens up a bit at Sunbury and then heaps from Riddells Creek onwards. Lots of puddles all over the place and standing water in creeks/drains.

Looking very wet over the course of the next week and a half. Probably the best outlook for rain we have seen for ages.

Just by way of illustration here is a map showing the heat on Sunday (perhaps the peak of the event). The red areas are where a new record high August temperature was set, the orange areas are where the day was in the warmest 1% of August days, and yellow where it was in the warmest 3% of August days.

Frightening!!! And I guess we got to get used to this!!!!