Melbourne had its wettest day in a year on Sunday as storms blanketed the city and caused significant damage in the western suburbs.

Weather bureau senior meteorologist Simon Timke said Melbourne recorded 15 millimetres of rain in 15 minutes between 4.20pm and 4.35pm.

“It was a pretty wet, pretty intense period,” Timke said. “That’s fairly intense and a lot of gutters and drains would struggle to cope with that sort of intensity, and that’s where we get the flooding issues when the rain’s coming down that heavy and that fast.”

Overall, Melbourne had 31.6 millimetres from 9am until just after 6pm on Sunday.

“Which makes it Melbourne’s wettest day since October 19 last year when 32 millimetres were recorded at Melbourne’s Olympic Park site,” Timke said.

He added that the wild weather wa

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