Yes that's some nice WV imagery Jimmy. 50-60 mm (24hours to 9am) recorded at various sites around the catchment which is excellent, should be some good runoff with the now moist soils and there should be some even more impressive totals by tomorrow morning.
Last night around 7:00pm, as I was parking, I thought I could see a CB developing above. As I was checking a parking sign it suddenly bucketed down and was enough to make me pretty wet in the short time it took to cross the road. While in the restaurant, some 5 minutes later, I saw what i thought was a camera flash out of the corner of my eye, although the canon that followed indicated that it was a close CG bolt. This was followed in quick succesion by about 5 further close bolts. On the way back home, the main road was closed due to a fire, which in the news this morning was reported to have been started by a CG strike. I was periodically awoken by further rumbles of thunder through the early morning hours. This is good winter stuff!
We might have to start a thread for next weeks potential cold outbreak - I'll be at Narrabri on Tuesday so should be an interesting flight in the Dash 8!
