Happy 40th for January DW!!

Thankyou for that Petros
Pssst...add a couple (few) more years and you'd be spot on

Had a quick 0.6mm downpour this morning. Looks like if you manage to get under a cell today, it's gonna be very short lived! They are moving very fast.

East Gippsland is firing atm. I was hoping that it would have cleared by now as I am heading up near Buchan to do some fishing. Just hope the road into where I am going will be ok as Buchan looks like copping it big time shortly.

Give us a toot as you drive through Loo!

A nice period of rain had in Maffra this morning according to my mother, makes up for the trace we got last night.

Happy birthday! Quite steamy outside at 70% RH.

Still only on 0.6mm of rain for the day. I spose the next day to look out for is Sunday with that low, but seems all gone for now. The structure out to my North is stunning though! Would have snapped some pics if I had've taken my camera with me

Nice sunset though! Awesome seeing the tops of clouds lit up bright orange!

Very delighted to come home to find 10mm in the gauge!! - this mornings showers/delivered nicely!

Brings us to 31mm this month, significant because our Feb rain tally is normally near zero, with the odd easterly rain event every 4-6 years that floods us (as is the case for any month here) to give the long term 2"/month average fo thise parts..

Should be some more action out east today. Looking at wind obs, seems the trough is from around Gabby's place to near Petros, certainly some N in the winds east of that line. (nice of the weather to match up with WZ users, lol)Anywhere east of that line is achance of a shower or storm although much more so in the hilly parts as usual. Chance is the key word.

Some hint of a thundery type band from morning tomorrow starting out west working across the state. HAd dreams of a chase a week ago but thanks to work a drive to just north of the ACT that realistically looks the most interesting tomorrow pm is just not on. Should be some decent storms tomorrow out east and if the trough slows down it could get interesting over a wider area.

Yep chance of a storm is in our local forecast today.

Nice sounding for Melbourne although fair cap around 850hpa. Central range activity might be visible a little further west today as well. Also trough will begin to broaden / flatten out ahead of tomorrow.

LOL, well not even a nice cu display on the hills, guess the uppers have warmed a bit as the day went on.

N and NE winds cover more of the state than I thought they might at this time and a few light showers wobbling across. Interesting blob of storms and rain west of Adelaide but it'll either fizzle or make its way to sthern NSW. Some models still like the NE later today for some good storms/precip, ACCR has the heaviest VIC effort along the ranges in the East. If NE winds hold and we got some breaks its sure going to be muggy..

And muggy it is here, 65% RH and 23C, dead calm and overcast, again the BOM has the chance of storms here.

Yest got to 26C, a cloudy day with persistent easterly breeze in the arvo, no storm structured clouds about, although the mountains were heavily clouded late in the afternoon.

Petros I reckon you're a better chance today

Storm just flared just over the SA side of the border. Just out the front looking west and the mid's look unstable. Pity we cant get an hour of sun with the trough still just to our west.

Ruckle the trough is the outer Eastern metro area right about now? Atleast thats what the Sypnoptic is suggesting.

Winds still NE at Essendon and Tulla. Probably diagonally across like it was Thursday. S at 2kts here at home. Ballarat still N, Mt Gellibrand NE as well. Mids do look nice.

Some weak convection towards NW, presumably around the ranges. Then again I could be just looking at the tops of a bit of mid level stuff which continues to look ok.