First Day of Summer

[Adam from Oz]

Well guys,

Here it is:

IDV10450

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

Victoria

Melbourne Forecast

Issued at 10:05 pm EDT on Friday 21 December 2007

Warning Summary

A severe weather warning for localised flash flooding is current.

Forecast for Saturday

Rain and local thunderstorms at first with flash flooding possible. Showers

during the day as northwest winds turn colder southwesterly and strengthen.

Precis:       Showers. Windy.                    

City:         Min 14    Max 18

Laverton:     Min 13    Max 18        Yarra Glen:    Min 12    Max 17

Tullamarine:  Min 13    Max 18        Mt Dandenong:  Min 10    Max 14

Watsonia:     Min 13    Max 18        Scoresby:      Min 13    Max 18

Frankston:    Min 14    Max 17        Geelong:       Min 12    Max 17

UV Index:     12 [Extreme] UV Alert from  9:00 to 17:40

Sunday        Few showers.                           Min 13    Max 20

Monday        Becoming fine.                         Min 14    Max 22

Tuesday       Fine.                                  Min 13    Max 23

Wednesday     Fine.                                  Min 14    Max 26

Thursday      Fine.                                  Min 15    Max 32

Friday        Mainly fine.                           Min 15    Max 33

The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:50 am EDT Saturday.

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Got 76.6mm ( 3.055 ") in the last two days in very warm, humid weather.

Palms are sucking it up.

Water tank is full just waiting for the usual announcement that it all missed the catchment areas.

May your Christmas be moist

Cheers,

Adam

[Jason Baker Portugal]

Hey Adam,

Have you been doing those funny rain-dance kind of things in your yard again? If yes then pics please;).

Cheers

Jason

[Gtlevine]

First day of summer for you means first day of winter for us So Cals. We now have to sweat out six to eight weeks of cold snaps.

Happy growing down under,

Gary

[Dave-Vero]

In Melbourne, Florida, the rainy season tends to start fairly precisely 3 weeks before the Summer Solstice.  Hope you haven't been kept waiting.

[ariscott]

Adam,

Good to see you are getting rain down there... Actually, you have been getting more rain than us lately. We are in transition at the moment, convection rain has finished (sort of) and monsoon has not quite make it. But... apparently someone predicts that we would be getting 400mm between Christmas & New Years... Now that is wet!!!!! And probably TC sometime after that... Exciting wet times ahead.

Regards, Ari

[tim_brissy_13]

Adam, its still raining and its great.  The usual announcement occurred however, the Thomson Dam only got 2mm.