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Melbourne severe weather warning

bright.ton42 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:25:19 GMT

Forecast for tomorrow due to edge of cyclone I believe

Storms, gales, torrential rain,

\Flash floods

May start during the night

Just a heads up for my fellow suffferers

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

davidc4430 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:41:57 GMT

having some pretty wild weather here, we had a flash storm earlier aroung 5pm, lightning and thunder then some heavy rain.

now its very very windy.

btw, for anyone who doesnt know here is wallaroo south australia.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

springyzone — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:05:13 GMT

I'm not at all happy with today's forecast as I have to drive way over to a distant suburb today. Hate driving in heavy rain. So far, not too bad, I'd be tempted to set off now except it happens to be heading into peak hours! I'm in Endeavour Hills, Melbourne.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

lyhargr_0 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:41:12 GMT

Have had 20mm so far this morning, pouring here atm ...... Need to do the grocery shopping n shops are 30km away, going to be a wet trip

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

davidc4430 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:30:03 GMT

Extreme weather on the way as tropical cyclone, southern low pressure system develop in the east

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-12/bom-issues-severe-weather-warning-as-major-storms-forecast/10610060

wow, worst wind ive experienced here during the night, it kept blowing my locked front door open!

i think it was moving the house frame so much it was popping the door lock!

i had to get a piece of 4x2 cut it to length and jam it against the wall and door to stop it.

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davidc4430 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:44:30 GMT

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

debra9275 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:53:47 GMT

we were lucky in Melbourne last night... the severe thunderstorms missed us... I had a look at the BOM radar and the the storms went right along the coast, but missed us .... it's just raining steadily here atm so far.

Im supposed to be going out this afternoon but I'll wait and see what the weather"is like.. I hate driving in the rain and don't want to be driving through flooded roads, so I may have to cancel

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

go-tazz — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:07:21 GMT

We've had 49 mm so far,(streets will be flooded in town and shops will have sandbags out as the drainage

can't cope with quick solid rain like this).

I'm in Yarrawonga,(Mid North Victoria).

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:12:14 GMT

Nice steady rain in south-west Vic. Light but steady. Yesterday all the rain was skirting around to the north of us.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

debra9275 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:45:24 GMT

@go-tazz wrote:
We've had 49 mm so far,(streets will be flooded in town and shops will have sandbags out as the drainage

can't cope with quick solid rain like this).

I'm in Yarrawonga,(Mid North Victoria).

geez sounds like your really copping it there tazz

we're much the same as brerrabbit so far.. just steady rain...

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

go-tazz — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:31:03 GMT

@debra9275 wrote:

geez sounds like your really copping it there tazz

we're much the same as brerrabbit so far.. just steady rain...

A bit more expected in the next 6 hours or so,(but not as severe more steady type stuff which is good for the

soil as it needs it.

Bendigo,Ballarat have thunderstorms at present and that cell is heading for Geelong and may just miss

Melbourne or get the outskirts,(that cell is similar to what hit us),

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

imastawka — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:40:54 GMT

40mm overnight and it's just stopped - for now.

No thunderstorms as yet.

But I think that cell might get me.

I'm staying home.

Northern suburbs Melbourne.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

go-tazz — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:48:38 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
40mm overnight and it's just stopped - for now.

No thunderstorms as yet.

But I think that cell might get me.

I'm staying home.

Northern suburbs Melbourne.

If it keeps on it's current course then you will cop it and it could be more than 40 mm,(here it very solid rain in

that it came down quickly in bursts),

Stay safe and indoors could be the best place to be,

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

imastawka — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:58:25 GMT

Thanks Tazz.

Helping me decide to stay home was the fact that daughter has to pick me up.

She's a cowering, slobbering mess in thunderstorms.

Needs to be under the bed.

I don't need her driving like that.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

lyhargr_0 — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:17:30 GMT

@go-tazz wrote:
We've had 49 mm so far,(streets will be flooded in town and shops will have sandbags out as the drainage

can't cope with quick solid rain like this).

I'm in Yarrawonga,(Mid North Victoria).

Appently there is flooding noth of Wang ...... traffic to/from Melb being diverted via Shep, can add an hour to the trip

Round 25mm here, light rain falling atm , my veggie are all smiling

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

lyhargr_0 — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:21:42 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
Nice steady rain in south-west Vic. Light but steady. Yesterday all the rain was skirting around to the north of us.

Im also in SW Vic ..... looks like we missed the worst of it so far

No thunderstorms so far, not that they bother me

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

springyzone — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:24:01 GMT

I went out this morning, rained all the way there & back but only heavily in one part.

Wouldn't you know it, just as I turned into my own court coming home, the rain cleared and it hasn't rained since!

Not looking awfully promising outside though. Don't think I'll bother hanging the washing out, put it that way.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

imastawka — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:48:44 GMT

I got those storms this arvo.

I hadn't emptied my rain gauge, so all up, from last night and today, it reads 62mm!!

And more rain tomorrow.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

go-tazz — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:37:59 GMT

My OH informed me that roads to Wangaratta,Rutherglen,Wodonga areas were shut due to flash floods

blocking the roads,(they brought in a helicopter to get cars to safer ground).

We've gone over 61 mm and it's still raining.

Re: Melbourne severe weather warning

go-tazz — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:44:52 GMT

Edit,(people to higher/safer ground,(not cars),

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/wangaratta-flood-warning-issued-as-wild-weather-dumps-rain-across-victoria/528905

Some have had over 100 mm,