Hi everyone, I thought this was worth a thread.

Here are some rainfall totals forecasted by BoM:

Probable squall line to bring widespread rain tonight itself.

Yeah I noticed that, it seems to be riding the SWly change.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR711.loop.shtml

Seen here....

First 'event' in around a month. Bout time. Let's hope it comes off. Squall line looks interesting.

It's also riding along a strong southerly change. Hoping for the rain. We need it.

Cheers for setting up this event thread, Waver Rider.

Let's get comfy in here and watch some weather play out.

Well, I see the new forecast has upgraded the coming wet spell to 'event' status. Hope it comes off. The gardens here need it. As do the farmers.

I had a short, sharp shower here about 3:00PM but the later cells missed me. Chatswood picked up 1.0 mm, probably in about 3 minutes.

We'll see what happens. It was 27 on the car thermometer when I got home about an hour ago.

belting down again here, constant heavy and flashes ... I'm mentally calculating my tank fill ...

The dewpoints are quite supportive of rain; Penrith is sitting at 22 degrees and OH at 19.8 degrees.

I'm just hoping we'd get some explosive development once the change gets closer with those DP's.

BoM forecast upgrades have been issued around 11pm = up to potentially 70mm tomorrow!!!!

I don't think we will see anything like the BoM is saying.
In fact check the sat pic and radar, look's dry but I seriously hope I'm wrong.

I wonder what the precipitable water for value for Sydney would be currently.

Unless something develops soon, I just can't see anything close to the rainfall totals that the BoM have predicted. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

Nice breeze just came through

Change seems to have gotten lost just nth of Sydney. Ran out of puff I guess. Very uncomfortable night up this way. High broken cloud.

Finally some decent weather to report in this neck of the woods.

Moderate rain for the last couple of hours verging on heavy at times. Rain rates pushing a steady 20mm/hr as well. Also the occasional thunder as well, makes it a lovely morning to sleep in. Definitely much welcomed, been very dry since last March.

Slight breeze from south has arrived. Very light. Lots of sun now. Still very warm for this time of morning

Its just going to develop right over the central east....so its not like you are going to see a huge cloud mass coming down from the tropics or something.

Checkout the 950 v 500 level winds to see the advancing upper trough. Its slow moving and collides nicely with a pretty good onshore feed.

Certainly the Hunter should get a good drink tonight I think, but it should be a nice wet day right up the east from the Illawarra.

Finally!!