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Old 10-02-2012, 06:09 PM   #1
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Default Storm heading Melb way NOW....

I am sitting here now watching a massive storm brew and head sth toward's the nth suburb's of Melb, I would suggest anyone with vehicle's that have them out side get them in if they can and batten down, it has been swirling around the last few hr's up here and two storm's have meet up and it's heading your way, just a quick head's up just in case people..

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Old 10-02-2012, 06:54 PM   #2
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acording to bom it is going to miss melb


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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
for DAMAGING WIND, FLASH FLOODING and LARGE HAILSTONES
For people in the East Gippsland and parts of the Central, South West, Northern Country, North Central, North East, West and South Gippsland and Wimmera Forecast Districts.


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Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Ballarat, Bendigo, Seymour, Maryborough, Traralgon and Bairnsdale.
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Old 10-02-2012, 07:03 PM   #3
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Default Re: Storm heading Melb way NOW....

We have Thunder here and it's still swirling down toward's Kyneton and has been for the past hr or so.
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Old 10-02-2012, 08:18 PM   #4
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Its all black here at melbourne airport ....
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Old 10-02-2012, 08:19 PM   #5
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Default Re: Storm heading Melb way NOW....

If its the same one that went through Wodonga this afternoon it was just rain, no hail.
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Old 10-02-2012, 08:25 PM   #6
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Im in Traralgon and besides the sky rumbling for a few minutes we have had nothing, not even rain.
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Old 10-02-2012, 08:45 PM   #7
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plenty of clouds here in the city, but no rain as of yet.

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Old 11-02-2012, 01:35 AM   #8
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nothing in geelong....
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Old 11-02-2012, 02:22 AM   #9
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In the North its been a fizzer, threatened all day to do something only seen a bit of rain since midnight, went to Monee Valley races tonight 18 deg not a drop.
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Old 11-02-2012, 04:10 AM   #10
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Default Re: Storm heading Melb way NOW....

At least it wasn't like Picton NSW this afternoon ... they copped it as bad as Penrith the previous afternoon. Have seen a couple of doozies over the last few days up here.
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Old 11-02-2012, 01:21 PM   #11
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13 mil here in West Footscray this morning.

Local creek was ocer the road, luckily the lady with the patrol got through.
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Old 11-02-2012, 01:22 PM   #12
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Default Re: Storm heading Melb way NOW....

Not much up this way in the Macedon Ranges, a bit of lightning, thunder and some rain for about 10 minutes, that was it.

BOM radar images was showing heavy rain right over here, but it didn't turn out to be much at all.
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Old 11-02-2012, 04:04 PM   #13
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I was watching that storm on the radar last night, it moved to the NE and off the screen.

We had 28.5mm rain last night and this morning in Sunbury.
Good we finally had some rain, its been pretty dry here since Xmas day.
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Old 11-02-2012, 11:21 PM   #14
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We have Thunder here and it's still swirling down toward's Kyneton and has been for the past hr or so.
I got well and truly caught in it last night, although, when I was unloading at Bendigo, it wasn’t that bad. I have three video cams mounted in the windscreen of the truck (2 HD and 1 Full HD) and managed to get some great footage of the lightning.

I’ve done a few screen shots, although they don’t look as good as the video footage. I’m in the process of making up another demo clip and will have last night’s storm featured in it.

Here’s two pics. I have another nine that I’ll add to the thread as I upload them.

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Old 11-02-2012, 11:46 PM   #15
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Old 12-02-2012, 12:06 AM   #16
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Old 12-02-2012, 12:20 AM   #17
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nice shots .
i havent driven in a storm since i got my windscreen cam.
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nice shots .
i havent driven in a storm since i got my windscreen cam.
Thanks for that.

These shots were all taken from the same second. The black line in the third shot is the wiper blade.

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And last of all, before the rain hit, a sight that GasOLane would be very familiar with…

Getting bagged up by a REAL truck.


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great shots Full Noise must have been a bit wild up there
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Old 12-02-2012, 09:31 AM   #21
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Fantastic shot's mate, it certaintly hung around for a while, that's why I thought it was building up into something as it was swirling around for ages, I seen one storm come in from the east and another from the nth and they hit just sth of Bendigo and hung around for ages, it was very dark and looked amazing from my joint, the last I seen of it it headed of down Mt Alexander toward's Kyenton.
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Great shots there Full noise!

I had been watching and waiting for that same storm to hit as it looked similar to Christmas day and that one destroyed my Dads car, our pergola and the garage roof.

We got a little bit of rain but that was about it.

The lightening in the shots above is hitting the ground full tilt!

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