Not much astronomy this summer-La Ninas here

[erick (Eric)]

Originally Posted by erick

Melbourne looked much the same this morning on our radar - some heavy downpours, including here at Bundoora in the Northern suburbs. Sky lightening towards the west at present. A lovely drop!

Well, that rain kept going SE and dumped on my home suburb! Flooded my garage!! However the scope didn't float away and I had almost everything else that mattered, well off the floor! A few days drying needed now.

[Lee]

I have some damp observatory carpet (outdoor carpet luckily) after our storm - it blew very hard for a while (and 40mm rain in half hour or less) at the exact angle needed to get under the door.... More weatherproofing needed....

[Terry B]

I've had 2 clear nights in the last month. They were the night of the full moon and the night after that.
It's currently raining.

[tornado33]

some nasty thunderstorms thisarvo. Very humid
Scott

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

Eric, my parents are in Bayswater and came home to find the entire house flooded up to several inches..Dads dob in the garage got err.. very wet

Not good

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

My son and I watched, on the internet, a massive thunderstorm reaching from NSW down to Bass Straight heading straight towards us last night. We got ready to go outside and watch it . . but nothing happened!

According to the live lightning tracker there where in excess of 80 strikes near us and heading our way. We saw nothing, nada, zilch!
The clouds parted and the stars came out. What a fizzer!!!!!!!

[Ric]

I got a nice soggy bum riding home this afternoon from work.

But as I always say "It's not the first time and it certainly wont be the last"

Cheers

[§AB]

last saturday was clear but the seeing and transparency seemed awful.

Forecast is ..... #$@!^@!!!#@^*@^##$%#$#$#$#$%!!!!!!~@#@!!

Gotta hate La Nina, bringing us these "wonderful" cold and cloudy "summers"

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Beautiful blue sky here, not a cloud to be seen. I'm getting paranoid, keep thinking if I set the mount up in the backyard, it'll attract the clouds

Bill