Melbourne severe weather warning

[bright.ton42]

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

[go-tazz]

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@debra9275 wrote:

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geez sounds like your really copping it there tazz

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

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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),

[imastawka]

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.

[go-tazz]

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@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.

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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,

[imastawka]

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.   

[lyhargr_0]

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@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).

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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

[lyhargr_0]

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

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

No thunderstorms so far, not that they bother me

[springyzone]

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.

[imastawka]

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.

[go-tazz]

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.

[go-tazz]

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

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

Some have had over 100 mm,