Hooray! The Rains are here!!!

[ballaratdragons]

We are at present being bombarded by massive thunderstorms and damaging wind/hail and Urgent Weather Warnings on the net, radio & TV.

I quickly got some pics of our Flash Flooding, but will post them later, there is another wopper of a storm starting right now.

Yaaaayyyyyy, we got rain!!!!!!!! :cool:

Inland NSW & Southern QLD is copping Thunderstorms even worse than ours :eyepop:

[stephenmcnelley]

Enjoy the show!
Lets hope there is more rain than destruction in them for you and the south.

Storms arent quite extending up to Hervey Bay though..but it has looked a touch threatening all day.

Hope you get lightning images.:eyepop: there have been some very cool ones recently.

[ballaratdragons]

This is the current weather map!!!! All the white, red, and blue crosses are lightning strikes :eyepop: and it's all heading South!

[matt]

Where'd you get that map, Ken?

[ving]

sweet! rains good, unless umm... you are farming something that doesnt currently require rain. :)

[spacezebra]

Looks like we might get a drop or two more tonight. Over the last couple of nights we have had in total about 4mm.

Need more!

Cheers Petra

[ving]

the skies aer clearing here atm. i have set up so i am expecting thunderstorms :rolleyes:

it feels like its been months...

[ballaratdragons]

Here Matt. You have to be a Silver member to get the lightning tracker, but you can get a 5 day 'Silver' free trial if you want. But click on the 'lightning' box and see if you can get it without joining.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/currentweather/radartwc.jsp?code=NSW

[spudrick]

So close yet so far! Not a drop here Ken both Leon & you have had the storms and rain it missed me completely heading down south..

[davidpretorius]

thanks for thy link kenneth me boy!

great news re the rain.

[leon]

That's bad luck Terry, and your really so close to Ballarat.

Cheers leon

[ballaratdragons]

Leon, you can't tell me you aren't getting thunderstorms now! :lol:

I'm watching them batter Ballarat now (and here) :thumbsup:

[leon]

No mate didn't get more than acouple of flashes.

Cheers Leon

[ballaratdragons]

Some didn't work out :sadeyes: but these did. :thumbsup:

The Dam before the rains & after (today). And Over flow! :lol:

[ving]

give it a coupla days and the grass may even turn green :)

[ballaratdragons]

Then I'll have to mow it! :eyepop:

All my sheep are gone coz of the drought.

[ving]

bugger, sorry to hear bout your sheep ken.

[ballaratdragons]

Not dead from drought, Vingo.

Gone as in 'on your dinner table' :lol:

[ving]

oh it was your sheep i was eating.... I'll let you know they were delish!!! :D

[ballaratdragons]

Yeah, lot's of Graziers got rid of their sheep a few months back as there is nothing to feed them and no water for them, so off to market they went.

Even this water will be gone again in a week or so. Unless we get more rain. If not, the Cattle will start going to market too!

[Astroman]

Great shots Ken, no doubt you need atleast another 200 of these events to make any pimple on this drought. It's a start.