The 2005 Melbourne Thunderstorm was a severe weather event that occurred between 2 February and 3 February 2005 which produced 120 mm (or about 4.7 inches) of rain in Melbourne, the highest total since records began. Every suburb in Melbourne, parts of eastern Victoria and the Geelong/Bellarine Peninsula were affected by the storm.
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“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)