Famous last words.
Have a cricket ball sized hailstorm or three, and 500 mm in a few hours from a stalled ex tropical cyclone.
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As you said that, my weather app says 100% chance of rain tomorrow!
#gottaloveaussieweather
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In 2022 January North and Central Qld were crying out for rain the humidity was off the charts and SEQ was getting it all ..
Yeppoon averages about 100mm in January and my suburb got 151.5mm in 24hrs on the 12th
I’ve had 700 and something mm since November
356mm in November due to an isolated 150mm fall
Then there was a long dry spell only 20mm fell for a month so everything dried off and browned until late December
December 104.5mm but that fell mainly in 2 days .
January so far 332.8mm
We are on sand and no rivers here there are creeks around Yeppoon rural and low lying areas .. Never floods here.
Also averaging a degree below .. cooler than November and December and yet to hit 30 deg this month. Coolest since 2023 January … last 2 Januaries have been much hotter than average.
And Giant Hailstones in Southern NSW. 67-69 dBL (which means large/Giant Hailstones can occur)
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Victoria really going through the five stages of weather events.
Hope everyone’s staying safe down there
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Such a beautiful spot too, Wye River. And to think that they just marked 10 years since it was bushfire that nearly destroyed the town.
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Yes, have seen videos of cars on the Federal Highway near Goulburn being pelted with baseball sized hail. That sort of shite usually happens in the Midwest USA but is sadly becoming more common on the Southern Tablelands. We get at least one tennis ball hail event ( or worse) every summer now.
Thankfully Bungendore and Braidwood missed everything, but it made for some nervous radar watching.
I was watching that rain bomb over the Great Ocean Road too. The Otway Ranges can produce lots of orographic rainfall, keeping things green there but also exposing the region to occasional events like this. Victoria is doing its best impression of NSW right now, and guess where I’m headed tomorrow!
Another bad fire day looks likely next Friday too, will be getting out of dodge very early from Yarragon if that is the case.
You know it’s just opposite day… Then you wake up to Thunder at 3am. Just checked the radar and got greeted with this:
And apparently - Storms for the morning & clear for the afternoon
And these cells are actual storms - Just 30 minutes ago they had Hail in them. These do shoot out lightning & Thunder. Never thought I’d wake up to this again. Happened twice before ever since the end of October
Overnight storms aren’t exactly uncommon, particularly in January when the atmosphere is ‘juicy’ most of the time.
I do prefer storms in sensible hours though.
We have rare storms forecast for Portland and Port Fairy tomorrow, though I doubt they’d be the destructive type that we get back home.
Overnight storms are not that common for the Clarence
But ever since October, storm behaviour has changed drastically up here. Had a storm at 7am back in November & even hail in August (no kidding, ABC made an article about it)
I think the only time where I don’t recall seeing storms is in the first few hours after sunrise… but have seen them anytime from about 11am until the next sunrise….
Harden NSW got a golf ball sized hailstorm at 0600 last summer! Couldn’t believe it when I checked the radar early that morning.
The atmosphere is so volatile these days over the tablelands. Just noticed you did say after sunrise, though I think the Harden storm was on or just after local sunrise there.
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Surprised they didn’t patch over the old 2010 Sunrise logo on those jackets ages ago. This year will be 10 years since it was last used!
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January is like The Hunger Games of weather in NSW especially. The weather is much calmer down here in the far SW of VIC; would be nice to spend the whole summer down here. Winter is a different story mind you, but I’m tempted to book a few nights in August or September just to witness the raw power of the Southern Ocean.
