Gedday,

I am about to take tomorrow (Friday) off; but I couldn't go home without noting the nice rainband that passed through Vic and Tassie this afternoon.  I have put a few radar images up on my web page.

Woomera: 2350 UTC (Thursday morning)

Melbourne, 0500 UTC (Thursday afternoon)

Melbourne 0750 UTC

The rainband has been analysed as a front; but its a pretty innocuous system at the surface, as seen by the maptool images for today (web-page).  vicwind(kts):  9 May 0430 UTC,  0730 UTC

Synoptically it is as if the major large scale low back west of WA deceided to throw out a weak small scale trough to trot across the continent.  As seen by the current LAPS prog (also on my web-page), there is instant anticyclogenesis-ridging behind it with a replacement of the large scale WA/Low -- Eastern Oz High pattern we have seen over the past week.
LAPS Prog:  00, +12, +24, +36, +48.

I don't have anything insightful to say about this system; but I would like to use this forum to note events as they happen; so  when something similar occurs a week later we have a record and we can go back and compare systems.

Cheers

John McB