'Yes', 'No' storm blasts through Geelong

"Once-in-a-century" downpour
 flooded the streets of Geelong.

A wild thunderstorm has drenched Geelong with "once-in-a-century" rainfall, but by the time it reached Melbourne its wrath had weakened.

When the storm hit Melbourne around 6pm it sprinkled the city with little more than three millimetres of rain, a fraction of the 70 millimetres it dumped on Geelong earlier on Wednesday.

The Geelong storms led to widespread Geelong storms and more than 250 calls to emergency services.

Read the story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Severe thunderstorms batter Geelong.”

 

(Was the Geelong storm climate change in action?

Officially, no, but anecdotally, yes - Robert McLean.)