Melbourne's sky turns black as dangerous storms bear down

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

Multiple 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)

Up to 21mm of rain was recorded at Anakie in simply half-hour.

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

“Flash flooding has been observed with storms moving through Melbourne,” BoM mentioned.

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

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