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Heavy winds here ATM

Indeed the lounge room window just exploded 30mins ago.

oh... all ok I hope
Hail at bunbury.
Heavy thunder.

Well by the looks Troutman got a bit so he may now be a converted believer , all I need is the front on sunday to hit and I think I will have a win

19.5 mm here for the past 24 hrs Nocky, and that is by a reliable gauge!

My automatic gauge measured 16.2 and last night it read 6 and we had only had 4 mm. I have noticed a lot of discrepancies before, generally it reads high and I am sure it relates to the amount of wind. I reckon the plastic mounting bracket flexes in the wind, activating the catching spoon.

What area are you in Priv. We got off fairly lightly here!

Yeah pretty average weather here.......

Yeah pretty average weather here, just rainy and not nice...

Near Bunbury, the lounge faces north too. Freak gust I guess as no other damage but there was glass 2m into the room. Was windy and about 10mins latter got some hail.
Going to have to buy a new camera the old one the batteries leaked inside and cant get it to turn on

My gauge is reliable Rick, Just resets at the proper time Officially by a more reliable gauge Narrogin had 17mm Boys at WAWG are pretty excited Tornado's, Hail, Water spouts and wind, some area's of Perth coped it big time, even Troutman's area got 20-35mm, still no comment TM? and more coming on Sunday

Was a good front alright, looking at the WA weather map almost every area had some rain. I ended up with 39mm in my gauge which is a fair bit less than the Perth hills got. Official BOM gauges in my area recorded slightly less so I wonder how accurate my gauge is, its just one of the standard ones that Landmark sell. Can you buy better quality ones??
I was up in Perth yesterday delivering fish, almost every tank I went to was going over the top so I had to bucket a few 100mm out of them before I could put the trout in!!

windy as hell here today and last night. Lost my greenhouse plastic during the night. So windy my bed was vibrating and the huse was shaking and it is solid brick and no the missus wasn't here she was at work

when it blows here, it really blows and the joint is a mess.

We had thunder here the night before and my our bed was vibrating too! yeah, yeah, I know what you're all thinking, but-
It was the dog trembling with fear

We may be sending you a bit more yet monya,
good to hear TM, rain varies from place to place, your rain gauge is probably correct, I prefer the self emptying electronic Gauge, it is accurate with the old style ones and you can see from inside what you have.
An example of different rain over short distance, when I was looking at the official figures for Friday at 9am saturday, Busselton had 12mm and Busselton Airport had 32mm, can't remember how far out the Busso Airport is, but a huge difference in rain

I suppose the rain pattern is no different over here, a few years back the neighbour over the road recorded 12mm, and Dad's place, directly opposite - got 0!