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So the last 3 days in Melbourne have felt like Brisbane. Unfortunately on Wednesday and Thursday we didn't get the thunderstorms that were forecasted but quite a few kept developing over the drier south west suburbs and out to the east and west. Somewhere near Ballarat got 100+mm rainfall and there was flash flooding around that Macedon area.

Today 1-5mm was forecast vs 20-40mm for Wednesday and 10-20mm for Thursday. Some places to the south West had 5 rounds of storms. I had 3 or so in Footscray with not much lightning. The last one came with the first giant hail warning ive seen but thankfully no hail from it. Heaps of rain for 10 minutes though.

Some record December rainfall around Victoria and Tasmania. I think north east Tasmania is getting hit hard with rain again.
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"A broad moisture laden trough triggered severe thunderstorms across the Melbourne area on Friday afternoon, leading to heavy rain and damaging wind gusts. A storm cell passing just to the west of Melbourne impacted Point Cook, which measured wind gusts of 150km/h and over 16mm of rain in 3 minutes, around 1:15pm yesterday afternoon. Heavy rainfall of nearly 19mm and 10mm was also measured in 10 minutes at Weribee and Tullamarine, respectively. Overall, over 85,000 lightning strikes were detected by the Weatherzone lightning detection system within 100km of Melbourne yesterday. Widespread and severe storms also extended over central and eastern Victoria, as well as into southern and central parts of New South Wales. "


16mm in 3 mins! That same suburb had a roof collapse at a shopping centre from a later storm.

I didn't really see much lightning at all on Friday
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Significant flooding in Maryborough, Queensland over the weekend as the Mary River burst its blanks. Whilst the town only appears to have received around 100mm, a station in the river catchment (about 40km to the SW of the town) is reported to have received 674mm in the 24 hours to 9am on Saturday (8th Jan). This is apparently the highest daily total in Australia since 2018.

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/mar ... hree-years
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^ Yes, the result of the remnants of ex-TC Seth, which crossed Qld's SE coast on Friday then stalled... :(
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Australia's national temperature record of 50.7°C appears to have been equalled today, Thursday 13th January 2022, at Onslow Airport, Western Australia.

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1 ... 1012901890

50.5°C was also reported at Mardie + Roebourne Airport.
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24 degrees at the moment and a 20.4 dew point and rising in Melbourne. Had storms break up as they came from the north west last night :(. Lots of hot nights and a townhouse in a block that won't cool down. Lack of flyscreens means I keep my windows shut or get mosquito bites
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Melbourne average maximum this month is currently 28.1(+2.2) and minimum average is 17.8(+3.4). I don't even think we have had a night under the average minimum temperature. After today maximums are above 33 till Thursday and 20-24 minimums.

Also some impressive record rainfalls in south Australia!
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Perth, Western Australia, has now had a run of 5 consecutive days (up to Saturday 22nd January) with 40°C+ being recorded in the city. This makes 9 days this summer, which apparently beats the old record of 7 in a summer season - and still a month or so to go.

https://twitter.com/BOM_WA/status/1484761686397661189

To put this in context, we have never seen a day with 40°C in the UK.
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The Perth Metro site recorded 40.4°C as a maximum on Sunday 23rd January to make it six days in a row with a maximum of 40°C or more. Much cooler on Monday with a maximum of just 31°C.

The Perth Airport site had six days in a row with a maximum of 41.3°C or more.
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I'd rather that heat if there is no humidity involved. Melbourne is still feeling like south east Queensland and the nights are hot but I can still sleep. 36 yesterday! Once it eventually drops below 17 next month(hopefully) I think I will be cold ;P
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/mel ... aks/536027


I can't believe this is the hottest 5 day period since that 2014 when we had 5 days over 40 and I was working in a warehouse at the time.

Many rainfall records have been broken in arid locations recently .

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/rec ... -sa/536011
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/rec ... vic/536032
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423mm in three hours near Childers, QLD this morning !:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-25/ ... /100858572

Radar continues to look nasty:
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There have been some very high rainfall totals in Queensland and the north of NSW in the last few days with some places having 1000mm+. These figures for the Brisbane area are for just one 24 hour period (to 9am on Monday 28th Feb) with 300-400mm+ over a wide area.

https://twitter.com/BOM_Qld/status/1498081220625842177
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its crazy
you can blame the big blocking high pressure we have over NZ and La Nina
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More humid unstable onshore flow there for the next week atleast.
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It is an absolute catastrophe over there. More than 400 people missing in Lismore alone. Many other towns have experienced similar flooding. The race is on to get Wivenhoe Dam back down to its normal drinking water storage level before the next rain event later in the week, the down side being that it floods Brisbane with its downstream water releases.
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I would have thought Northern NSW could see this heading their way and evacuate ahead of time?
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Awhituobs wrote: Tue 01/03/2022 14:45 I would have thought Northern NSW could see this heading their way and evacuate ahead of time?
It dumped 800mm on Lismore in 12 hours. The river at Lismore peaked almost 2 metres higher than the all time record. Yes there was a major flood warning issued but it did not predict record, catastrophic flooding.
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I use this word a lot lately re the weather - crazy
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Some record rainfall totals for Brisbane - 676.8mm in the 3 days to 9am on Monday 28th February:

https://twitter.com/Ben_Domensino/statu ... 8364909570
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I see western Sydney suburbs around Penrith and such have just evacuated as the system heads inland over NSW.

Some further terrible flooding happening right now.
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JP. wrote: Wed 02/03/2022 22:56 I see western Sydney suburbs around Penrith and such have just evacuated as the system heads inland over NSW.

Some further terrible flooding happening right now.
The flooding is predicted to be worse than the March 2021 event.
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A stark video here on the BBC Twitter feed of a bridge in Queensland disappearing during the recent flooding. From the date and time reference at the top left, this is a timelapse over about 2 1/2 days:

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1 ... 8099179524

Glenore is about 40km to the west of Brisbane.
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^Amazing footage, here is the full video of it:
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Yesterday was warm and humid with broken cloud although I still managed to get through my 4km run without too much trouble.
Tried to find as much shade as I possibly could.
High was 25.3 and it only got down to about 19 overnight (not a great night for sleeping).
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Sydney mtd 427.6mm. A very wet and cloudy month so far!
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