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  1. Prestigious_Fan_1061 on

    Wind is blowing Northerly from the South. Rain is largely missing Melbourne to the West. It’s unusual but it does happen…

  2. It’s called ‘[training](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_(meteorology))’ in meteorological terms, as in trains along the tracks, and occurs due to an area of stationary instability causing showers to form parallel to the wind over the same area again and again.

    It’s hard to tell what the exact source of stationary instability is in this case, possibly something to do with the edge of the upper level low pressure trough passing over us or just from the air being funnelled through the Heads, but the satellite imagery from this morning shows a clear line between the showery clouds to the west of the CBD vs the clearer skies to the east of the CBD.

    https://preview.redd.it/27ucl93a1irg1.png?width=1446&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab97461f325fd1340f3caea2ccc7347cfc59df14

  3. Opening-Listen7833 on

    I saw this too, and I was also wondering about it too.

    I’ve seen this phenomenon before, but this is quite an extreme version of it

  4. I noticed that when I zoomed out to the national radar that the small line of rain to the west seemed to form over King Island and the central strip of storms started over the North West tip of Tassie. Made me wonder if the topography upwind was a factor.

  5. How’d you access the old version? I can’t stand the new site that looks like a blank webpage

  6. here_for_the_lols on

    It’s not that uncommon for weather features to cause something like this