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    Batten Down the Hatches Melbourne – Storms Incoming


    Batten Down the Hatches Melbourne – Storms Incoming

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    1. justpassingluke on

      I hope it makes it to the eastern burbs. The grass is finally starting to come back to life.

    3. Eternalism on

      Gonna miss to the North I suspect but there’s more out west that might reach the city later

    5. Ryzi03 on

      It’ll likely miss to the north and Melbourne should be spared from the worst of it.

      It’s been stalled over the Ballan area and drifting slightly northwards for the last few hours, and with weak steering winds of about 15-20km/h at 6km in elevation, it’s not going to be moving anywhere fast either.

      It’s quite possible we’ll get some showers, there’s some slightly lighter stuff that’s broken off around Caroline Springs and is drifting SE-wards towards the city, but it likely won’t intensify to quite as strong as what the Ballan area has been seeing.

      The current aviation forecast for Tulla has the threat of storms easing within the next hour or two anyway:

      >THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL WITHIN THE TMA (CIRCLE TO 30NM RADIUS):

      >5PM – 6PM: 100% chance of thunderstorms in the TMA, 80% chance at YMML.

      >6PM – 7PM: 100% chance of thunderstorms in the TMA, 30% chance at YMML as current activity is expected to be easing by 7PM.

      >7PM – 9PM: 20% chance of thunderstorms in the TMA, 5% chance at YMML.

      >4AM – 1PM: 60% chance of mid-level thunderstorms in the TMA, 30% chance at YMML from 5AM.

    8. Economy_Alps_7772 on

      It’ll brush past us. Thankfully looks like Sunday – Tuesday we’ll cop a bit

    11. monkeyatcomputer on

      Very close strike at home already with the previous storm cell. NBN FttC lost sync and has taken out an Ethernet port on the router – but weirdly not the NBN NTU.

    14. Ergomann on

      It’s been sitting over Bacchus for hours! So much thunder and lightning and Gisborne got smashed with hail as well

    16. Goats_in_parks on

      Got some good rain in Lilydale area, 44mm at the lake. Bit of a waste really as it was already wet.

    19. Eternalism on

      Ummm I’m supposed to be riding down to the St Kilda foreshore to see De La Soul – am I going to die

    20. AuthorArthur on

      This ‘Storm’ has been threatening to hit us all day out east. When I woke up it was all south of us, then it went north of us. I successfully washed and hang dried the kids bed sheets. I am not threatened by this weather.

    31. Rising-Dragon-Fist on

      And it’ll miss Werribee almost completely as usual.

      Also, what weather apps are people using for rain radar? Can’t find a good one.

    33. Beginning_Duty_3540 on

      It’s always Wallan and surrounding suburbs copping the storms and all their roofs blow off because of the cheap builds

    35. Ryzi03 on

      Not these storms in the Melbourne region, but Horsham just got brutally slammed with the worst severe storm of the day.

      Nearly 50mm of rain in the 18 minutes to 7:10pm, 15mm of which fell within just the last 4 minutes of that period, and wind gusts up to 124km/h as the storm hit.

      [https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.95839.shtml](https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.95839.shtml)