© Aaron Stanley, Taylors Hill'I took this photo shortly after 8pm at Melbourne Airport looking towards Sunbury.'
Flash and lashing rain saw homes damaged in Melbourne's north and west as a storm hit the suburbs overnight.
The wild weather flooded a police station, caused a supermarket roof to collapse and grounded flights at Melbourne Airport.
Residents in South Morang and Mernda are cleaning up today after flash flooding hit some homes and streets.
More than 50mm of rain bucketed down in Melbourne's outer north last night in little more than a few hours.
And the Bureau of Meteorology is warning there is a possibility of more storms later this afternoon.
© Aaron LoweLightning strike seen from Doreen.
Sunbury FoodWorks manager Ben Duffy said last night there was ''an extreme bang then the roof went''.
His was one of 130 requests for help the State Emergency Services received since noon yesterday when the thunder and lightning first struck.
Mr Duffy expects the damage bill to exceed $50,000.
"I know people always say this but I have never seen anything like it before," he said.
"I couldn't see three feet in front of me, the car park flooded, water was half way up my car."
The damage caused by the storm in Melbourne has left FoodWorks in Sunbury, a bit worse for wear.
Shoppers and staff were evacuated ten minutes before part of the roof fell in.
"We'll be here all night cleaning up, everyone is just getting around like wet rats at the moment," Mr Duffy said.
Sunbury was the worst hit with emergency receiving about 30 pleas for help.
"We had quite a few reports of trees over roads and reports of low-level flooding in homes and residential streets," SES spokesman Lachlan Quick said.
© James DemetrieLightning can be seen from Westfield Shoppingtown in Doncaster.
"There was some flash flooding in the South Morang and Mernda area after about 50mm of rain fell during the storm.
"Thankfully there have been no injuries and no reports of SES crews having to rescue people from flood waters, which means people are not driving through the floods."
Lightning stopped planes from landing and taking off at Melbourne Airport, causing long delays.
Airport spokeswoman Anna Gillett said it was a normal safety procedure because of the wild weather.
© Gary DrainA nice bolt of lightning from last night's storm, taken in Rosanna.
While Epping police station was closed due to storm damage.
Weather Bureau senior meteorologist Phil King said 60mm had fallen in Mernda - 47mm fell in one hour.
"That's above our flash-flood warning of 25-30mm an hour," Mr King said.
Sunbury had 30mm of rain in 20 minutes.
"These storms are producing some really heavy rain that will continue throughout the night."
Melbourne is expected to hit a top of 31C today.
The weekend is expected to bring more settled weather before more storms are predicted for Monday and Tuesday.
The mercury is set to reach a maximum of 33 tomorrow and 32 on Sunday.
Afternoon showers are expected on Sunday.
To report damage, contact the SES on 132 500.
This is an amazing event to see … there is that possibility that some celestial occurrences were taking place in the upper atmosphere causing this sort of extreme bad weather …
Now if a pyramid facility operating as a “kinetic accelerator and stabilizer, generating plasma activity”, also known as a tiller …. would began to fail or breakdown … this could explain the lightening …
Such a failing stabilizer would also cause an established quantum state of still water to liquefy causing such a rapid downpour …
Such stabilizers creates and sustains an enclosed pocket of open atmosphere in a specific accelerated frequency flux … which also creates the wall of a still water bubble barrier in it’s specific state of a quantum flux ..
All of which is necessary to sustain a celestial community in their bubble barrier of a higher frequency alternant reality …
If a colony have indeed fallen from their state of quantum flux … they would need to establish a cloaking field which could also cause some extra ordinary lightening activity …..