Victoria: Springs fronts/lows September 1st-7th 2009

Well I am, err, happy to report thunder and a couple of flangs up my way. Just drove to Trentham in the sunny weather to look at some property in the Spitfire....and temp dropped by about 5 degrees, thunder, and I decided to drive home on the Trentham-woodend road. Now torrential rain and hail is not the best way to enjoy open top motoring as hail stones at 100kmh hurt.

My fault really as I was admiring the line of clouds coming and thinking Jane has the right idea being here as you definatly get a good view of the weather!

Lovely heavy rain on the way home and some decent flangs as well, one almost on top of me. Now only 14 degrees in Woodend, and at least 4mm so far.

Edit, it was that monster Kneton cell I was underneath, i should have taken a camera as the libe of clouds was pretty decent.

It is as black as a dogs guts here in Sunshine, looks like we are about to get something.

Black as to my NW though not expecting much mabye a mm or 3 as its moving very very quick.

Where everyone go? No need to storm chase their coming to us

Snap, crackle & pop here in CBD

Yup there was a clap here in the CBD a few mins ago and still rumbling.

Jase

More wind damage coming i think

Very dark now to my north west. Getting localized reports of rumbles in the city now. Just hope it makes it to bayswater. might make my work day a little more bareable.

Massive bolt seen from camberwell

bloody hell, I just get off the plane, go wow, what a lovely day then within 10mins it's pitch black, 3 huge cracks of thunder and now hail and torrential rain, logging off this is NUTS!!!!!!!

Just had thunder here as well. I had forgotten what that sounds like until now!

Oooh, hello new board!

It's dark as here - snuck up on us quick smart!!

Very black outside and very windy - looks like it's about to slam us any minute! Nice start to the season!

The radar is amazing again, I seem to be attracting storms atm lol

Just heard our first rumble here too. Just in time for school pickup

Here too seen 3 CC's and heard 3 rumbles

Lightning all over the sky, severe thunderstorm, supercell prob

Well looks like the extra couple of degrees have paid off (amazed to hit 19C up here which is about 8C above average for us). Had three big rumbles up here and looks to be developing very quickly - though also moving pretty quickly. LI are now around -2 to -3 across Melbourne (about 2 higher than expected which will give these a bit of oomph).

nice red core just went right over me, heaps of lightning and thunder around but it's moved off quickly

Woooohoooooo!!! Lightning and thunder here - booming thunder in fact!! More please!

No rain yet though.

Just starting to come down in Sandringham with lots of thunder.

The city & bay area's look like a xmas tree on the radar! Only got the edge of it here as usual.

Damn, I'm going to get wet aren't I?! Why, why, why does this always happen at 3-3.30?!

Getting very dark here

Leasy wrote:Woooohoooooo!!! Lightning and thunder here - booming thunder in fact!! More please!

No rain yet though.

It really is booming very loudly Leasy, once it moves away a bit. It's been so long

Man it has really fired up when it hit the bay.
Mick ol boy, you are in for a good one!!

if that cell over the bay does organize itself into a supercell the SE will get smashed because it's moving so fast. Just had a short cold out flow blast here.

Sorry that radar is literally amazing, the bayside subs are going to be hit very very hard