Melbourne's sky turns black as harmful storms bear down; metropolis bracing for flash flooding

Melbourne’s sky turns black as harmful storms bear down; metropolis bracing for flash flooding

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The sky above Melbourne turned black minutes after a extreme storm warning was issued for town and surrounds this morning.

A number of communities are bracing for heavy rain and flash flooding has been noticed in Melbourne.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued the alert after 8am on Thursday.

This was the scene in Melbourne at 8:30am this morning. (9News)

The skies turned black minutes after the storm warning was issued. (9News)

As much as 21mm of rain was recorded at Anakie in simply half-hour.

An replace, posted at 9.25am, stated the storms are over the japanese suburbs and monitoring additional to the east.

“Flash flooding has been noticed with storms shifting via Melbourne,” BoM stated.

The BoM stated the extreme storms have been detected on the climate radar close to Footscray, Melton, Sunbury and waters off Altona seaside at 8.35am.

They have been forecast to have an effect on Caulfield, Craigieburn, Dandenong, Glen Waverley, Melbourne Metropolis, Preston and Ringwood by 9.05am and Pakenham, Scoresby and Whittlesea by 9.35 am.