Victoria: Unseasonal warmth. Series of cold fronts. August 18th-22nd 2009

19 in the city

well it just ripped through here and I'm very protected, it was quite short lived though. That would have to create damage!!!

Ripper gusts here windchange went through 10 mins ago bit of rain but only enough to settle the dust I expect little round here

109 kmh gust at fawkner beacon

Just a photo of that squall line approaching the city. Dark and gloomy. Sorry for the photo quality.

OMFG!!! Tree came down just a metre from my car!!!! Sooo lucky it missed mine, and the car next to me - very lucky nothing damaged though - was quite a gust of wind!!!

I think that will be pretty widespread, we have had a lot of wind lately, these trees are going to be weak

We have been absolutely smashed with wind over the last 15 minutes. One particular gust brought a bit of debris with it

Rog.

David wrote:Very strong gusts here but no rain at all, this system is looking a dud rainwise.

This is Melbourne after all

We had a massive gust which tripped our power. A wild old system, yet still dry.

Had a wind gust of 70kph, it picked a heavy chair off my deck and blew it into the garden as if it was made of balsa wood.

Looks as though the band is intensifying rain wise as it is tracking east.

Just a whole lot of wind and limited rain with these systems ay..glad I'm not out in it.

a further 3mm since 9am. 14.6mm till 9am and 4.6mm the day before that this system has really been good down this way!

Wind is Extreme to say the least. Lost power twice in the last 20 minutes. Lights still flicking a lot. Expect to see wide spread damage from this. Will the main winds continue as the rains go through, or should it simmer down once the bulk of the line passes?

Power just tripped here, windy as anything, like armageddon outside

It won't be as windy as this, but still pretty windy

Wow nice big cell from Pakenham to Korumburra, it would be absolute mayhem down there I suspect!

Many trees down across the Metro area and power lines down as well many traffic lights out tree down on one of the Western suburbs rainlway lines distrubting train services to Werribee and Williamstown and heard reports of Shopping centres being blacked out as well Doncaster way also Shipping containers have been blown into the Yarra at Port Melbourne

This is one of the more destructive wind events of late

Yeah, part of the neighbours fence is down too. Leasy, that's pretty scary. Was it a big tree?

Just looking at my records, to the same date last year I had 370.2mm while this year only 262mm, I thought last year was a shocker..

floydlove wrote:Yeah, part of the neighbours fence is down too. Leasy, that's pretty scary. Was it a big tree?

Just looking at my records, to the same date last year I had 370.2mm while this year only 262mm, I thought last year was a shocker..

Yeah, it was a big tree, the top branch has come off (will post a photo tonight) and the branch itself is as big and thick as a small tree!!

It was one of those ghost gums, we were lucky it also just missed our air-con unit (temporary one - we had a major fire at work 4 weeks ago, and only my area has reoccupied), and our power flickered for a good 20 minutes - no power outages though.

Twas pretty bad out there!

Does anyone know exactly why we are getting extremely vigorous NW systems on a weekly basis? What is spurning this weather pattern?

Tree fell on Porsche on Chapel Street according to 3LO

We can't win guys seriously... We ask for the Westerly belt to be active and further North in Winter cos if its not most climate change people would say its not a normal Winter and the westerly belt is going to far south but when it is very active and further North this is the end result for many of our systems!! All wind and hardly any rain or little of it. Our climate bemuses me and perplexes me we just can't seem to win down here.