Looking good for 20-30cm overnight. Best chance to experience powder for the rest of 2016 IMO, come Tomorrow arvo or Wednesday morning. Cloudy but no rain in Matlock ATM.
Observations 17-23 October
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Patiently waiting for insurance assessor to arrive, observing persistent rain and hills shrouded in mist, not that cold though.
Definitely coolish overnight in Sydney, but today is freakin' GLORIOUS!
Alpine October has me stunned, p*ssed off and happy all at the same time....
Coming down solidly:
Am loving this cyclical weather we're having...cold fronts delivering 10-20mm, follow up troughs/fronts with pulses of showers and colder temps, then warming up, before we do it all again.
Only thing I'd change would be the nasty NW winds before the fronts.
Roof is rumbling here in Brighton, and radar shows we're about to get another dose
Im sick of it.
This is meant to hit in August.
Im ready for the warm sun and long arvos now.
Not wind and rain and cold.
Weather this time of the year should be warm sunny days followed by arvo storms
There's a distinct chill to the air reminiscent of winter this arvo.
Reasonably heavy rain in the CBD at the moment
Some good falls in our water catchments: 30-50mm over the past 24 or so hours. Dams are at 70% atm.I observe our fire is on and there are cars in Jindy with snow on them.
Nice brisk air on the face for the walk into Melbourne this morning, beautiful morning.
Cedarwood cam at FC looks nice, 10-15cm?
Another moderate frost in Nth Central Vic this morning. Is it June or October? Seriously.
LM looking like it's got as much snow as at any time this winter:
Grabbed fresh tracks at Hotham this morning of Spargos. In for lunch and then to Albury.
Didn't screenshot any of the cams but there were a few fresh tracks down front valley and mt perisher. bastards
Here are some pics taken this morning of the main range (mostly obscured by clouds) and some of the Victorian snow fields...
lol, Looks like a few good fronts lined up all the way to November. Shall I book the Lodge for a potential White Christmas?
Lake George looking quite full too...
Good pic that can clearly see the fault line that blocked the river/ck outlet that caused Lake George.
Over it.
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING for DAMAGING WINDS
For people in the Central, South West, North Central and parts of the East Gippsland, North East, West and South Gippsland and Wimmera Forecast Districts.
Issued at 6:56 am Thursday, 20 October 2016.
WEATHER SITUATION:
A strong cold front will approach western Victoria Thursday night then will cross the State on Friday.
DAMAGING WINDS, averaging 60 to 70 km/h with peak gusts of around 90 km/h are expected to develop Thursday evening over southwest Victoria, spreading eastwards overnight and early Friday morning. Areas likely to be affected include the Southwest and Central Districts, and parts of the Wimmera, North Central and West and South Gippsland districts, and Alpine parts ( above 1200 metres) of the Northeast and East Gippsland districts. Elevated areas above 1000 metres are likely to experience gusts up to 110km/h.
Winds are expected to ease from the west early Friday, but will persist over Alpine areas until early afternoon.
Winds in the Melbourne metropolitan area are expected to reach their peak between midnight Thursday and 7am Friday.
Winds in the warning area are expected to be of similar magnitude to what was experienced last Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Locations which may be affected include Warrnambool, Seymour, Maryborough, Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne.
But another load of rain to come tomorrow. Unfortunately it's a day early.
I'm exactly the same. If we pick up another 15-20mm in Melbourne, it'll have been quite a wet week. Up in the Yarra Valley they've had over 60mm this week, so it'd be good for our storages to bank some more water before summer.
Windy?
I'm sure our SA neighbours are looking forward to more winds today. Hopefully they can keep their electricity on:
MTB trails have been closed at Lysterfield, I expect other parks to follow suit. Normally this would be OK, but last week there were idiots riding during the high winds, and when trees came down they continued to ride and completely destroyed the trails by riding around fallen trees and mud, creating sub tracks and just a mess everywhere. So because of these idiots, no one can go anywhere.
How do they close the trails? big sign upon entrance to the park?
Most of em are pretty spread out, they dont go out and put a sign in front of each one do they?
I assume they post it on the website?
https://www.ski.com.au/xf/threads/hotham-backcountry-trip-19th.76545/#post-3144742
Just got it up
Windy in Matlock ATM
I don't expect it to get better anytime tonight
