Great news for the Melbournians who have been sweating their tits and balls off, you’re in for a change: you’re about to be swept out to sea. The Burea of Meteorology is warning that the state of Victoria is about to be in for some “unprecedented” weather – a term that seems to come up now that we’ve fucked the planet beyond repair.
The bureau is predicting that the state could be hit by up to three times its monthly rainfall in the space of just two days, with the possibility of flash flooding.
Senior forecaster Scott Williams told the ABC that the weather wildly uncharacteristic with what they would expect:
November traditionally is a thundery time. It’s our peak season for thunderstorms and we do get heavy rain but I’m talking heavy rain as 50, 60 maybe 100 millimetres.
When you’re talking 150, up to 300, millimetres on the ranges, that makes it unprecedented.
The ~weather~ is set to hit Melbourne around Friday and Saturday, with the heaviest of the storms rolling through around Friday night / very early Saturday morning.
Williams says that this will potentially be some the heaviest rainfall they’ve seen in 30 years:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a deep low form over Victoria whilst we’ve got this moisture around. So to that extent we are a little bit in unchartered territory in terms of the weather.
This is a very big event, a very widescale event and it’s right at the top end of rainfalls that we’ve seen in Victoria in the last 30 years.
So that’ll be a bit of fun. As always: keep an eye on BOM weather warnings, don’t drive through floodwaters, make sure the shit you’ve got underneath the house isn’t important, and don’t drive like a dickhead if the roads are wet and the visibility is low.
Also call in sick if there’s even a slight chance your trip to work will be a pain in the ass, you deserve a day off.
