Big bang in Mt Waverley. No power. Work from home they say. Not much help if no power
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Same. Woke the baby at 3am. I’ve never experienced the wind as strong as it was 3am-4am
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Winds reaching 146 kilometres per hour have battered Victoria overnight, with the State Emergency Service (SES) receiving more than a thousand calls for help
A powerful cold front is moving eastwards across the state, bringing some of the most severe weather conditions of the year.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has recorded wind gusts of 146kph in Wilsons Promontory, in Victoria’s south-east.
The Alpine areas have recorded winds of more than 130kph, Port Fairy and the Otways in the state’s south-west had gusts of more than 100kph while there were 113kph winds in St Kilda, in Melbourne.
The BOM on Sunday likened the strength of the winds to a category two or three cyclone.
There are about 140,000 properties without power in Victoria’s east, Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula and the state’s south-west.
SES chief officer Tim Wiebusch said winds as strong as the ones seen on Monday morning were seen only every “three to five years”.
Cold fronts push warm air upwards, bringing rain and gusty winds.
There are Watch and Act alerts in place for a wide area of Victoria’s southern coastal areas, from the South Australia border, around Melbourne and down around the south-east coast, with alerts also for the state’s north-east ranges and Macedon Ranges.
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60k homes reconnected to electricity, 100k to go.
I don’t know if it was the wind direction or something, but we’ve had far worse winds/noise/damage in the Glen Eira area over the last few years.
Can consider myself very lucky, I guess.
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That was some serious wind last night here in the outer east. Woke up several times (and it takes a bomb to raise me from slumber…)
Last time we had wind like that we lost power for three days.
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Hardly slept last night. Live bayside and the wind was horrendous.
I hate the farking wind.
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Monash City Council have hard rubbish collection today. Crap gone everywhere!
When is the wind due to stop?
Approximately when it stops blowing.
In the city, probably early am tomorrow.
It’s back again mid-day Wednesday.
This is when we need a dislike function.
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Not as long in duration this time. The winds should switch to southerly on Friday sometime and the weekend looks good;
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Does hail belong in this thread?
Sing along now …
No. I just posted about frozen rain in the other thread.
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Merge the thread already!
