Whacky Wx down south
 

You guys must be having an interesting time of it in the southern states at the moment - I can't remember seeing these two lines next to eachother in a TAF before... (YMES)

PROB30 INTER 2818/2821 2000 THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAIN SCT010 SCT100CB
PROB30 2818/2823 0500 FOG

Gotta love those Southern Ocean weather patterns ..... keeps your decodes up to speed. Even the ducks have cancelled all flights here today :E

Yesterday here was terrible, heavy rain all day, hail the size of tennis balls, all flights into Melbourne grounded and that was just the start. We had lightning that didn't go anywhere for over an hour.

It was chaos at MEL last night. Due to lack of departures, Tulla almost ran out of Tarmac space. Multiple QF flights waited on the ground more than three hours for a gate. Block times of more than 5 hours for SYD- MEL services. Perth service (already 1:45 late due broken a/c earlier in the day) was on the ground for 3:40. It finally arrived on blox at 0047 local. Sked was 1915.

Not a great night out.

Almost ran out? We landed about 8pm - there was one heavy behind us that ended up camped on the southern end of 16 for about 10 minutes....

SMH reporting Qantas running extra SY-ML 737, A380 and Q400(!?) flights today to clear the backlog

I was under a thunderclap (near west gate bridge) at about 6pm, that absolutely scared the bejesus out of me!(in a car thankfully) I was coming over the bridge a little earlier, and saw what looked like one of the med choppers going into YMEN:eek: Cant imagine that would have been a whole lot of fun..Or maybe it would?:E
Its reminding me of days in the late 80s early 90s where it just rained solid for hours.

Its been raining steadily/heavily this arvo as well around central Melbourne..