Storms in Melbourne

[Bobby]

The winds have been whistling and roaring for 2 days now:

Aug 28, 2024

DEVELOPING:
When the wild winds arrived this afternoon,
SES crews were still dealing with damage from an overnight onslaught.

Hundreds of trees fell across Melbourne with south-eastern suburbs hardest hit.

[Frances]

It was very windy here too, but nothing like that. We just had leaves all over the place and fronds from the neighbour's Canary Island Date Palms all over our driveway.

[Bobby]

It was very windy here too, but nothing like that. We just had leaves all over the place and fronds from the neighbour's Canary Island Date Palms all over our driveway.

It was bad where I live.
The winds were fierce - they went to 130km/hr in the Dandenong ranges - hills near Melbourne.

[Frances]

I think they only got to 70kmh here.

[Bobby]

I think they only got to 70kmh here.

https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/satellite/vic

Five more days of damaging winds for southern Australia

15:38 AEST Damaging winds will continue to affect multiple states and territories
across southern and southeastern Australia during the next five days.

[Bobby]

Wow I couldn't sleep properly as the wind was so loud.
It reached 80km/hr gusts not far from me.
It sounded like a lot more than that.

I have never heard such loud, strong wind in my life before.
It was whistling and howling.
This has gone on for over 4 days now.

Latest observations:
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml

It's still very windy here in Melbourne.


http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Melbourne area

Cloudy. Medium chance of showers, becoming less likely in the evening.
The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and afternoon.
Possible small hail. Damaging winds possible in the morning and afternoon.
Winds westerly 35 to 55 km/h decreasing to 30 to 45 km/h in the late afternoon
then decreasing to 25 to 35 km/h in the evening.

[Bobby]

Many people have lost power:

https://www.unitedenergy.com.au/outage-map/

[Bobby]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ents=false


Latest news  ABC 24:

121,000 people are without power in Victoria.


The Victorian premier said around 121,000 people across the state are currently without power.

Jacinta Allan said almost 700 Telstra fixed-line customers were also not able to make or receive calls.

    That work is being done to coordinate the response and restore services as quickly as possible.

People are still being urged to avoid necessary travel where possible, but if they need to go, “"please check the local warnings, please drive to local conditions and be mindful of fallen trees and debris that may be across local roads”.

[Bobby]

https://www.theage.com.au/national/vict ... 5k70x.html

Clean up begins but strong winds will hit Victoria again this week

By Benjamin Preiss and Angus Delaney

Updated September 2

Power transmission company AusNet confirmed 73,000 customers in its network had no power and some could be cut off “for a number of days”.

A 63-year-old woman, who is yet to be identified, was killed by a falling tree that crushed a cabin in Moama, on the Victoria-NSW border, as emergency services scrambled to respond to calls for help across the state.

Rain and hail also fell across large swathes of Melbourne on Monday, but wind speeds eased during the late afternoon.

The number of customers without power peaked at 180,000 at 6.30am on Monday. At 1pm, about 115,000 were still disconnected.


St Kilda and Aireys Inlet recorded peak gusts of 113km/h. Off Melbourne’s shore, a 141km/h gust was recorded at Fawkner Beacon in the waters of Port Phillip Bay.

Pilots were electing not to use the north-south runway at Melbourne Airport due to high winds on Monday, causing dozens of cancellations. One flight to Vietnam had been delayed for 15 hours, Melbourne Airport spokesman Andrew Lund told ABC Radio.

At least 58 flights were cancelled on Monday by 5pm, including 29 arrivals and 29 departures.

Between 7pm Sunday and 1pm Monday, the SES received nearly 3800 calls for help. Of those, 2600 were related to building damage. Frankston, Morwell, Warragul, Emerald and Moe were among the worst-affected areas.
Powercor had about 2200 customers without power in its network by 6pm on Monday. United Energy was working to restore power to just under 3800 on Monday afternoon, down from about 20,000 earlier in the day.

Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Kevin Parkyn said severe weather warnings were likely to be issued again on Friday with strong winds expected.

“But it looks like a standard springtime passage of a cold front where the damaging winds will likely be confined to the more elevated parts of the state,” he said.

A 146km/h gust battered Wilsons Promontory about 2.30am on Monday, while the alpine resort of Falls Creek also copped a mighty 132km/h blast of wind.

[UnSubRocky]

The wind died down around here. The cold came back.