Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Weather or not


WEATHER WARNINGS


Vic - 13:15 EST - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Melbourne. Severe storms may produce hail greater than 2cm, winds stronger than 90km/h & flash flooding

Vic - 12:39 EST - Severe Thunderstorm warning (damaging winds and large hailstones) for all districts except Mallee.

Vic - 11:04 EST - Severe Weather Warning for Damaging Winds for the Western, Central, West and Sout Gippsland and Alpine.

Vic - 10:54 EST - Gale Warning for Port Phillip and Western Port

Actually we did have some rain this morning, just as the radio news reported that Melbourne's reservoirs are at a forty-year low. Since then, it's been cold enough for a wool sweater and a fleece, then sunny and warm enough to peel them both off - and the day's only half-way through! As I came down to the library around 1 o'clock, deep blue clouds were massing on the horizon. Maybe we'll get some real weather at last! It is the merry month of November after all, I mean, er, May.

I didn't bring my umbrella, or course. (You'd think I'd have learned about "four seasons in one day" Melbourne weather by now.) Not that my little collapsible would be much help against 2 cm hailstones!