Follow up rain-storms Nov 26-29th.

That radar is starting to look like a xmas tree!

Am I looking at a Melbourne radar or is this a Cairns radar? There is a lot of orange floating around!

no thunder or lightning seen from here, and i have to be up early, so its off to bed for me

Now stopped and time to go to bed. Look forward to a couple of mm in the morning.

Alice, all the best tomorrow and cheers to a safe flight.

can I say this was a fizzer for me? I think so.....I doubt we actually got 1mm or 2 out of it. Maybe I just want more! lol

Should be up again in an hour James

Yeah it is certainly developing, now we need to push this rain south and get into the storm potential. Not much rain here for the east as the tilting is really tight closer into Melbourne currently - but it will come!!

1mm here.

Noone should call it a fizzer until it is over. How can you call it that when there is more coming??

Karl Lijnders wrote:Should be up again in an hour James

Yeah it is certainly developing, now we need to push this rain south and get into the storm potential. Not much rain here for the east as the tilting is really tight closer into Melbourne currently - but it will come!!

1mm here.

Noone should call it a fizzer until it is over. How can you call it that when there is more coming??

Karl do you think there will be much behind the band that is near Heathcote now for Eastern subs in the next couple of hours?

Karl, I was calling what came through a fizzer....it looked amazing as it was approaching but as I said no thunder, lightning (apart from one that I saw that was hitting Geelong) and light rain. What hit us was a fizzer.

Cant comment on whats to come yet!

Yes that area of convergence west of Melbourne spawning scattered showers and thunderstorms will contract slowly east over the coming 2 hours.

Might even tend to rain periods.

Yes a fizzer for parts of Melbourne but overall it rained here and so I can't call it that, but the weather is relative to everyones tastes

Mutley wrote:Now stopped and time to go to bed. Look forward to a couple of mm in the morning.

Alice, all the best tomorrow and cheers to a safe flight.

Thanks Mutley.

Night night.

True, karl....I got my hopes up high for a light and thunder show

will that cell near ballarat effect east or western burbs? like the look of it!

We seem to be in that North west dry slot thats slightly opened up, I'm not really expecting anything more tonight. Yep, this one pretty disappointing for our area but hey, I might be proven wrong. Things are still pretty unstable out there.

Yes the western suburbs can expect a band of storms, particularly heavy rain and flash flooding potential. Colac has had around 30mm in the last hour or so.

Loving the small scale trough coming around the low!!!

thinking im going to give it another 30 minutes, and if the radar is not inspiring me im going to go to bed. Not overly excited at this point.

samueliza wrote:will that cell near ballarat effect east or western burbs? like the look of it!

I think the cell near Daylesford may bring something....but who knows

OOOOO! that cell is getting closer! No doubt it will rocket over to the dandenongs but right now im getting excited!

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - MELBOURNE AREA
for DAMAGING WIND and FLASH FLOODING

For people in the
Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula and parts of the
Port Phillip Local Warning Areas.

Issued at 12:37 am Saturday, 28 November 2009.

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 12:35 am, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near the area east of Ballarat. These thunderstorms are moving towards the southeast. They are forecast to affect Anakie East, the area south of the Brisbane Ranges and the area west of Lara by 1:05 am and Geelong City, Ocean Grove and the area west of Geelong City by 1:35 am.

Damaging winds, very heavy rainfall and flash flooding are possible.

Wind gusts of 102km/h were recorded at Mildura Airport at 7.48pm, Charlton 98km/h at 9.33pm.
Charlton recorded 14.4mm in 10 minutes at 9.33pm. Nhill recorded 12mm in 10 minutes at 7.20pm.

Daylesford cell is looking nice..... I wouldnt mind being in Colac tonight

Wow, we're having a moonshower here now lol!

Same Lily!!! I cannot see any lightning

Anyone got any lightning to report???

Lightning to the NW of me, had a quick 10mm when the last line came through

Excellent DD that will make the region happy and the gardens for that matter. You could get another 10mm too.

I would keep an eye on that cold air field still moving into E SA. I have repeated it a few times tonight but should be in central areas by 8-10am and this could start to increase with diurnal heating.

That 'comma' coming through the Bight is something to be watched later today.

My eyes are giving up on me so I'm off. Hopefully that Daylesford cell brings us something.

Hmmm.... i think im gunna call it a night! Tomorrow!!!