Hi guys! Reporting from Corryong, Northeast Victoria, having arrived from Melbourne earlier this evening.
My family and I left home in Belgrave in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges around 11:45am yesterday.
Due to the fact that it was the AFL Grand Final Long Weekend, there was an awful amount of traffic in the Dandenong Ranges and Yarra Valley. It took until around 12:30pm to leave the Melbourne metropolitan area and to head north up the Melba Highway.
Our first stop was around 1pm at Yea for lunch. Roughly an hour later, we drove northwest along the Goulburn Valley Highway to Seymour.
By about 2:30pm we were racing north on the M31 Hume Freeway (Melbourne-Sydney), reaching Albury/Wodonga approximately 2 hours later. It sure felt good to be able to cross the Murray River from Victoria into NSW/ACT yet again!
After 45 minutes of resting, shopping and afternoon tea, we continued east along the Murray Valley Highway from the Border to the Upper Murray, arriving in Corryong around 6:45pm.
Weatherwise, the day wasn't too interesting but at least it was pleasant enough, and it definitely had a distinct early-springtime feel to the air!
It was a generally coolish day which started out mostly sunny, but became cloudier as we left home and headed out of Melbourne. We still had a few sunny breaks though, especially in Yea and Albury/Wodonga.
Temperatures were for the most part between 14°C and 18°C, although at Albury/Wodonga we had a burst of late-afternoon sunshine that pushed the thermometer up to a gloriously mild 19°C. Perfect for wearing a T-shirt!
Pity it didn't last long, as it became overcast and gloomy the rest of the way to Corryong. No sunset visible sadly.
From Koetong onwards, the gathering darkness combined with higher elevation and cloud cover to send the temperature down towards 11°C.
It was dry for the most part; only a few light showers skimmed the landscape, mostly around Seymour and nearby Trawool at about 2:15pm; most of these showers didn't show up on the radar. It looked unstable at times but we had no heavy rain or thunderstorm activity.
And hardly much wind either, although it was gusty as far as about Glenburn in the Yea River Valley.
Lush and green for the most part, but severe frosts have killed the grass in some spots here in the northeast. Some warmer weather and heavy rain may help though.
Plenty of beautiful flowers and blossoms, and canola fields (especially around Seymour, Benalla and Wangaratta).
Also a bit of snow still clinging to Mount Bogong in spite of last weekend's hot weather, at least from what I saw as I was heading east past Tallangatta this evening. It was too dark to see any snow about the NSW Snowy Mountains btw (as I was driving through Shelley), but the snow reports and web cams are encouraging!
And Lake Hume is currently about 91% capacity, according to Goulburn-Murray Waters! And some minor flooding about the region, especially along and near the Kiewa River.
Corryong had a few light showers this evening. The gloomy overcast associated with the cold front currently crossing Victoria has disappeared, although there's a bit of moonlit high cloud now moving down from NSW/ACT, in response to the trough over Central Australia to the north/northwest.
The Yarrawonga radar currently shows a band of showers stretching between Albury/Wodonga and Mount Hotham heading this way, so hopefully a couple of millimetres of rain overnight, plus some snowshowers for the Alpine areas!
Going to be a cold one tonight, expecting a low of 4°C here. Currently around 9°C in nearby Khancoban, NSW.
Good to be back near the VIC/NSW border once more!
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