Heavens open up over inland NSW
Martin Palmer, Tuesday July 13, 2010 - 10:29 EST
Wet times are returning to inland New South Wales today, with the potential for some places seeing their monthly mean in just 24 hours.

An active front has arrived in the southeast and is now tapping on huge volumes of moisture drifting through the interior. The moisture originated over the anomalously warm Indian Ocean. It has tracked across the heart of Australia, delivering some exceptional rain to places like Uluru.

The front is pulling that moisture into NSW and although weakening, is likely to deliver some of the best rain in months. Computer models suggest anywhere from the Central West up through to the Upper Western could see 24 hour totals reach 40mm. This total exceeds the mean in many places for the whole of July, normally one of our drier months.

Keep an eye on weatherzone.com.au and Stormtracker for the latest on the soggy situation.

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You only have to look at the cloudmass in the satellite image (on the right hand side of this page) to see something big is going on.
Drizzle has started in the ACT, nothing in the rain gauge yet just enough to make the ground damp.

Cheers Teddy

nice fog here atm in Bruce.

A maximum of 17.3c here today after a minimum of 9.6c,16.2c ATM. Gloomy most of the day & less than a millimeter out of the drizzle. The garden is getting a bit slushy again & the soil is soaked to the clay,so I dont realy need any more rain ATM. Wind from the NE has just started pick up in the past half hour,only showing 17km/hr on the weather station.

11.6C here - warmest temp all day & warmest temp here since the 16th June
Feels pretty weird for mid-July to be posting such a warm temp after sunset!

We had a maximum of 21.1c here today, nice and sunny with a NE breeze for most of the day til a bit of high cloud moved in late.
Currently 18.1degs, Dewpoint 15.5c, Barometer falling 1015.2, Humidity 85% and rising, Wind is light from the NE

Yep been a gloomy old day here too, never saw the sun & currently sitting on our max for the day of 11.2C weird that the temp has gone up since it got dark.
Only 2.4mm in the gauge so far I hope that there is a lot more to come, just light drizzle most of the day. The fog has been here for a while now too.

Teddy

Some seriously high temps in the Snoweis today, Thredbo 9.0, Perisher still 5.8 at 6pm at night, Top station rain and 3.7 now. That means rain on the Summit of Kosciusko as well. Here currently 10.2 which is about as hot as I have ever seen at this time of night in July.

A beautiful sunny mild 21.5 degrees in taree today after early fog

A very unusual night coming up, stepping through the model 850 temps the peak heat will be around 10pm tonight for the ST's and CT's, while for Sydney the hottest part of tomorrow will be at 4am. Just after 10pm as the airmass begins to change is when the real gale force winds and torrential rain will hit up here.

The heavy stuff's finally arrived here. We had heavy fog then heavy cloud today, and suddenly mid morning it was raining lightly. Did this all day, then this evening it really misted up and when I got home, inside my house was colder than outside! It was an icy feeling 10.3c inside, and 11.6c outside but it felt warmer. N wind. I considered opening some windows to warm the house up!

Fished some wood off the woodpile and just in time, as the heavy rain (and increasing N/NW wind) arrived. It's beating on the windows now (and trickling down my chimney, sigh, buckets are deployed). Looks like being a very wet, windy, noisy night.

...and it's still 11.7c outside! This is nuts. It feels so muggy out there.

Reading 16.2c outside and the breeze from the NNE is starting to pickup now. The 256km TH radar is starting to show some precip moving in now.
0.6mm here so far from 9am.

Here its still 10.3 now and the wind is getting stronger, EC is showing the strongest winds over the CT's tonight yet BOM have not given a strong wind warning for the CT's, very odd. House is starting to shake now, just hoping I can avoid a blackout.

Still sitting on 17c/90% humidity, not realy a nice feel to it.Baro 1008,wind still NE around 15-20km/hr & not a drop of rain since around 2pm.

Rainfall edging up to 11.5 mm for the day with the Temp up to a surprising 16 c atm considering the winds although from the North West has been gusting up towards 30k/hr over the last hr or so.
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It's been steady for a few hours now, but not torrential. Wind has been a bit gusty but nothing outrageous. And it's STILL 11.4c outside.

it goes from W/NW to N, although I think it's more NW now than before (when it was North).

woo ha, the big deal has arrived. The fire hose is blasting the windows. Wind is in the mid 40s, but this is RAIN.

12 degrees outside. [17 inside seems warm] :-)
24.3 mm in the rain guage
winds NE
Humidity 92%

Yes, Ant, tis RAIN

That's an amazing mass of cloud on the weatherzone map on the right.

Still nothing here yet,looks impressive on the radars but nothing on the ground.Temperature reached 17.5c about an hour ago beating the daytime maximum of 17.2c. Back to 17.2c now,wind gusty around 20-30km/hr NNE.Baro 1005 & falling.