Northern Victoria - Best rain event in a while
Drought stricken northern Victoria would be rejoicing as the rain band has delivered a worthwhile soaking especially in the northern country and north east. A long time coming for this region.
The rain band has decayed by 6 am. However totals in some areas must be the best this year. Excellent and worthwhile totals include:-
Mt Buffalo Chalet 71 mm, Chesthunt 57 mm, Hardcock 55 mm Albury/Wodonga 39.6 mm, Runnymede 37 mm, Avalon Station 36 mm, Shepparton 34 mm, Benalla 31 mm, Kyabram 30 mm, Wangaratta 27 mm are some of the best.
A large swathe across northern Victoria has scored from 25 to 40 mm. It is noted that such rainfall events delivering these totals have been rare of late.
In New South Wales Griffith has scored 22 mm, Yanco 19 mm and Wagga Wagga region 17 mm. Beyond far south west NSW and Murray / Riverina, falls taper away sharply.
Alice Springs:
I mention in my previous post that thunderstorm activity was occurring in the Alice Springs area. This morning I learnt that one storm passed over town dumping its best fall of the year with 31 mm at Wigly Gorge, 30 mm at Mt Lloyd, 23 mm at Charles River Big Dipper and 20 mm at Alice Plaza. The thunderstorm passing over Alice Springs did cause power blackouts and localised flash flooding but no significant damage.
Melbourne:
Melbourne's Eastern suburbs scored between 13 and 19 mm. Late Friday, a narrow rain band passed across the city bringing some moderate but brief heavy falls to some areas. Melbourne's north and west received less than 10 mm but the east received higher totals.
Late Friday, I noted some general weather alerts in place across Victoria and near Melbourne relating to the wind change and was reading about gales to 90 km/h in some locations.
South east Queenland
An area of thunderstorm activity continues across inland SE Queensland at 6 am. That event is still unfolding.
Harley Pearman
