There’s a hailstorm corridor in Sydney that runs a few suburbs in particular but it hails everywhere. The worst corridor one was quite a few years ago now. Cars were written off and houses were hit hard with roof tiles being smashed. It took something like 18 months before all houses had the roof tiles replaced. Blue tarps were on rooves everywhere.
Yes. I was living in Surry Hills and every tiled roof in the suburb was damaged, including Sydney Boys High School where I was then teaching. "At approximately 7.45pm on 14 April 1999, a torrential hailstorm hit Sydney's inner and eastern suburbs, damaging thousands of homes and cars. Hailstones the size of cricket balls hit the city at more than 200 kilometres per hour."
Sydney dweller here - hail storms are common during Summer but fortunately the storms with massive hail stones aren't as frequent. My suburb was the victim (yes victim) of a massive hail storm in December 2007. I don't think there was one house in the suburb that didn't sustain huge damage. Our newly built house (the builder had only given us the keys the week before) had to have it's concrete tiled roof completely replaced. The fly screens on two sides of our house were shredded and one window (safety glass thank goodness, was smashed). Our car which was unfortunately parked outside was written off (every window smashed) and the door lock had been smashed into the interior of the door so just a hole was where the door lock had been, the panels were dimpled like an orange. A neighbour had run out to drive their car into their garage as the hail started and sustained a skull fracture from a large hail stone. I have to admit that even cherry stone sized hail still triggers a bit of panic in us now, all these years later. But other than that, the weather's great!
It can happen in Melbourne as well. It's just so random in that a couple of suburbs will cop the destruction and not others, One year it destroyed our pergola in the backyard. Could have been heaps worse but, I am waiting for the huge pine tree to fall on our roof.
@@margaretsmith4441 Hunter Valley myself, true big hail isnt common but storms in general yes. Perhaps @MoreJps could look for the Pasha Bulka incident.
On my first trip to Australia I was told that there was a cyclone warning. Then, getting to the hotel there was a sign about cyclones in the room. It said if a cyclone is expected fill the bath with water. However, should the hotel start to break up empty the bath and get in it! Fortunately for us it hit landfall a bit further along the coast. It didn't put me off Australia though as I had a great time. So much to see and really friendly people, a great country to visit.
Standard practice, fresh water becomes a huge problem in the aftermath 👍 fill the bath, tape the windows, chain and lock down outdoor furniture, there's a drill you learn from childhood lol
Certainly heard Brisbane mentioned a lot there, and as a local I can confirm we do have a lot of storms during spring and summer although I haven't noticed as many this year (although surrounding area's have definitely copped it). Whether you get hail depends on the severity and the severity can honestly depend on the suburb you live in. In a cruel twist of irony growing up in a place with lots of storms, I was terribly afraid of storms as a child.
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Queenslander here, can definitely say that winds that are so powerful that blow you off your feet do happen, especially if it is due to a cyclone, don't go outside if you can avoid it if these are near. Hailstorms with hail the size of golf balls and larger aren't that common, maybe 1 or 2 a year in any given area, storms with smaller hail however are pretty common. You should check out some before and during flood videos, some times we don't use normal metrics like how many metres we've been flooded, we gauge it by how far under our local Maccas went :P Brisbane Milton Maccas was not too bad in 2011, Lismore Maccas in 2022 was extreme.
I was driving in that and could see it getting closer. It was creepy. Only one I’ve ever seen. Got home safely. Where were you? Inside or out? Glad we don’t get weather like they do up north in vid, looks terrifying.
I remember it like yesterday. It was in 1983 and I was walking home from school. I thought it was a total eclipse. LOL. Then we had the fires in the outer south east. Funnily enough I am living about 5 kms where the fires were 40 years ago and you would never know the destruction they caused.
@@Alpha_7227 oh I remember. We could see the hills from our place. ( think it was that one, or the other fire, few years later, up there was terrible. Actually could see the wind change that halted the fires from meeting in the middle. Would have wiped out the D'nongs if that had happened.)
The sandstorm that hit Melbourne was very similar to the sandstorms in the video. I was walking around in the city during my lunch break when it hit. I could see it approaching and waited it out in a shop until it passed. It was very weird but did not seem to cause much in the way of damage, although the owner of the convertible I passed afterwards who had parked with the top down and had a car full of sand may beg to differ.
Despite living through storms that damaged my car and almost squashed the house in Victoria, I'm still more worried about dry summer electrical storms. Wildfire from a lightning strike is always a huge risk to consider in my area. If the conditions are bad, and you don't evacuate soon enough, you're toast. Very burnt toast.
i live in central queensland, in a beach town called yeppoon and we see hail MAYBE once or twice a year. the last time we had hail, we had lots of tennis ball sized hail. my uncle got struck in the shoulder by one trying to get the family dog to safety, it dislocated the shoulder and gave him the darkest bruise i've ever seen
My mother's neighbor's daughter emigrated to Australia (Brisbane) from Germany 35 years ago. She visited Germany a few years ago and was not used to 19C in the summer and froze miserably for the whole three weeks. She mentioned that the year before she had to have her windshield replaced three times because of hail. When it rained heavily and her mother's garden was a bit under water, she didn't dare to go into the garden at first, until she remembered that snakes aren't a problem here.😂
A friend of mine lived 50 yrs of her life in Newcastle ,she now has been living in Mt isa the last 10yrs whenever she comes to Newy for a visit she is always cold even in a summer visit but more so a winter visit lol.
These kind of storms happen alot at certain times of the year. The longer you go without a bad one, you know a bad one will hit. The hail storms are common, but come without warning, had one here in Perth some 12+ years back, avwrage day and 2-3 suburbs got wreaked, lasted minutes but the damage was excessive. If you have not done already, look at the -2020 bushfires - its beyond insane -2022 floods - some areas flooded 30-50 feet in your measurements. Yarloop fire here in Western Australia was a bad one, levelled a whole town, literally. Fires got so hot the cars and rims literally started melting.
Yep, that Waroona fire was something else!! I lived close by and had friends of the family helping with the fires driving the heavy machinery to clear paths ect amongst the fires. One of the guys has always been to fires anywhere needed in the South West to drive the machinery and has experienced some of the bad ones like in Esperance and Margaret River. Our family farm was right on the edge of lockout so was impossible for my family to get in and out of their road in Brunswick as it was classed as the boundary. Instead of driving the heavy machinery back on large trucks to Bunbury everyday after their shifts, they left them at our farm as it was simple access and literally just off the highway and it a lot easier but even they had trouble some days getting the trucks back there as Police wouldn't let them onto the road. Anyway, my Mum kept them fed in between shifts and was getting constant updates on how it was going. She said she had never seen someone affected as badly as this fire, she said he was just white as a ghost after Yarloop disappeared. She had spoken to and seen him after he's helped with other massive fires but this one really shook him. He also grew up in the Harvey area and and had family and friends there also but was in the Yarloop area at the time when it was basically engulfed!! He said with all the bad fires he had been at, he had never seen anything like it before. The town was there one minute, then gone the next, literally!! I remember driving through Yarloop when the highway had reopened again and it was the most chilling and eerie feeling I've even had, gave me chills every time I drove through the town. We had a lot of friends of the family who's farms were hit, thankfully not losing much thankfully with all family hands on deck helping to put out spot fires. One of them asked how bad it was when it was approaching her property, the firefighters just told her to simply go, there was nothing going to stop it and they've never seen anything like it before. She said that these were well experienced fire fighters. Her farm was hit on boundaries and thankfully they got it under control towards the end and it didn't got much further than her property. I was suppose to go and stay at my family farm that week it had started but was told told that I probably wouldn't be able to access the road and to stay were I was as they may need to evacuate to my place. My mum had bags packed and was coming to my place in Collie, no way was she going to stay if it got any closer after what she had heard. I was on standby to have an influx of family in my tiny 2 bed place, even it if was just to get away from the constant thick smoke. People were so helpful at the time and offered caravans and tents to put on my large block for family if I need it but thankfully didn't. My Aunty had to drive from Perth to pick up my Grandmother in Harvey who was in an elderly home that was being evacuated. Due to both major highways being in the middle of the fire and shut down, it took her 6 hours to get there. As the only road was Albany highway to get to the South West area, we had massive traffic jams here in Collie as it was the only stop for fuel out this way or for travelling further South. Our poor 3 fuel stations struggled to keep up and people had to get what was left. The fuel trucks were pretty much constantly trying to supply Collie to keep up with the demand. I think people were even told not to travel to the South West unless absolutely necessary but was still absolutely crazy here. Then you got some idiots who complained that they had to pay for premium prices as they re wasn't any regular fuel left. I shook my head at those ones, they should have been grateful for what fuel they could get in that situation!! Police had to direct traffic on the main road in Collie as it runs through the middle of town. Locals couldn't cross the main road to the other side of town due the amount of constant traffic flow. We had the normal traffic travelling South plus many who were evacuating loaded up with trailers, caravans ect heading into the South West area. It was absolutely crazy here for weeks!! That was one hell of scary fire for sure. Every time we have a massive lightening storm now during summer, all that comes to mind is that Waroona fire and hope we never had another one like it!!
I remember a bad hail storm in the early 2000's when a narrow band storm system went through Yellow Rock in the Blue Mountains. Every house with a tile roof had it's tiles smashed and of course in a hail storm you get heavy rain too and all their ceilings were flooded. But every home that had a colourbond or corrugated iron roof didn't suffer any leaks. Sure they were dented badly but they didn't leak. Many homes built now have a colourbond roof in preference to concrete tiles for it's far cheaper and can take wild storms because the metal is screwed to the roof timbers whereas concrete tiles only sit using their weight to keep them in place. But if a wind is strong enough it will lift them off and always with that wind comes rain.
Fascinating video Joel. Those were the best dust devils I've ever seen - only little ones here and water spouts. The hail was spectacular. Alberta gets it so bad, that it has to shoveled like snow. Those rain and wind scenes were wild!!! Have a great weekend everyone. John in Canada
I live on the coast in Northern NSW. We get thunderstorms and hail every year.That massive hail storm was a couple of years back ,with the giant size hail hitting us first before traveling to the Gold Coast Qld. It came from nowhere and one knocked my neighbour clean out. In the last 3 years we have been evacuated twice from fires and three times for floods. Crazy weather.
Generally massive hailstorms like that are not that common here in Oz, it depends which part of Australia it is. Up in the more tropical areas, Northern New South Wales and Queensland there are more storms like that, but generally not a really regular occurance that you get hail like that. Ive seen a particularly bad hail storm here in Coffs Harbour, NSW, where a freak hailstorm hit out of no where, I can just remember how loud it was and how quickly my workplace was flooded. Amazing.
Years ago I we went to Brisbane, it was absolutely pouring harder than I’ve ever seen. I noticed the locals didn’t bat an eye lid lol. Melbourne here. Friends move up, copped those last floods but built high. An old fridge floated out of underneath carport - total strangers found it, towed it back and found the owners - guess u all look after each other during those weather conditions 😊👍
Hail is pretty common in summer, we’ll usually get three or four hail storms each year (both in sydney and all along the east coast) or more depending on the temps and weather patterns.
We also had a hailstorm that ripped across Melbourne in an hour, then hit the Dandenong Ranges just east of the city, bounced back, and smashed a suburb in the foothills
Melbourne is usually a bit calmer when it comes to extreme weather events, the largest hailstone I've seen was only golfball sized. The tropical storms up north get absolutely crazy.
The wild weather of Australia ~ We had a huge hailstorm here in Perth 7-8 yrs ago. Car yards where the worst hit, I remember them having way more clearance sales after that. (I’m guessing that insurance didn’t cover the panel damage) A friend of mine is originally from Swan Hill, Mildura, and she often talks about those orange dust storms.
Hail is very common almost everywhere in Australia. We average 7 cyclones per year. During the recent flood events over the last two years some places in Queensland and New South Wales received 30 inches of rain in 24 hours. We are still having major floods in northern Queensland at the moment- a year's worth of rain in 48 hours. California will have the same issues over the next 2 years as the La Nina events here will move north from our Pacific coast to North America.
Luck here in my part of northern Illawarra. I've only ever seen hail twice here, my area anyway. Both times were earlier this year and the hail was no bigger than peas. Probably shouldn't gloat so soon though, might come back to bite big balls of hail.
It hails in Sydney once every couple of year, generally not too bad and last about 10-30 mins. Its just that our weather has mood swings, it can be nice and sunny with no clouds then 30 mins later you have 80km winds and heavy rain but this is typically during summer.
I'm in Townsville in North Queensland and we have had hail recorded 3 times. The largest stones were the size of peas. Down south, from around Gympie down they happen a couple of times a year.
I recall the dust storm that swept over Sydney a few years back now. When I woke up and 1st looked out the window I thought WTF is going on. Everything had an orange to it which was the dust that came over night. Even the sky was sort of hazy too. It looked like an apocalypse has occurred.
September 2009... it hit where I live the day before it got to Sydney, around 2.30pm, turned the sky completely black, couldn't see your hand in front of your face, even a powerful flood light only travelled about a metre or two before it was blocked by density of the dust. That same year we had over a dozen other dust storms that turned the sky red or orange like Sydney experienced, with dozens more smaller ones that gave the sky a much more dim orangish dirty appearance. Those ones didn't make it so far across the country though.
There's only one thing I don't miss about living in Brissie (Brisbane) those sudden, violent Summer Storms. I lived through two of them as a little girl, I moved to Far North Queensland at 13. A couple of blocks away the roof from one block of flats landed on top of another one. This huge stuffed toy dog landed in My Best Friends backyard about half a block away. One day at school part of the roof torn off. We were all huddled under the teacher's desk. Another time it was announced that a car dealership was having a storm damage sale. The cars had massive indented from big hailstones. My all time favourite band is Bon Jovi and once had the chance to get cheap tickets to their concert. Unfortunately wasn't brave enough to go, at the very least I was concerned for their safety. I really don't understand why they seem to choose open-air venues during summer. We have a perfectly good Entertainment Centre they could use. Yes we get cyclones but I live in the mountains, namely The Atherton Tablelands. A cyclone has to be huge to effect us. I'm starting another comment.
That waterspout is very rare. Also with our weather it can change in a matter of minutes, 40degree day can turn into a crazy thunderstorm like that in a matter of minutes
Melbourne will usually get hail 2-3 times during a winter. Melbourne usually gets its rain more in winter and spring when it's cold but is very dry in summer as it has a temperate climate, whereas Sydney and Brisbane (both of which get much more annual rain than Melbourne) get most of their rain in summer and autumn as they have humid sub-tropical climates. As a result, in summer Queensland and New South Wales can experience flooding at the same time that Victoria is bone dry and burning with bushfires.
@@brasschick4214 That is true, I actually love the temperature drops because after 3 days of 35+ degree weather, nothing is more refreshing than a sudden drop to 22-23! I couldn't imagine living in a humid climate with no reprieve from the heat.
Tropical North Australia have cyclones every summer and places like Soth East Queensland have severe storms as a result. We battle huge bushfires one week and have severe flooding the next
One of my favourite tourist attractions in Darwin (and to be fair, there aren’t too many tourist attractions in Darwin 😂) is a huge iron support beam for a building that was tied in a knot by cyclone Tracy in the 70s. They left it in the city centre as a sculpture after they rebuilt. The weather here can definitely get pretty wild on occasion!
Hi mate summer storms, I lived in Queensland, the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Toowoomba they can get a bit windy blowing trees down and stuff and hail occasionally, never seen it as big as that, but marble size, they are not rare. If the spiders don't get you the weather will Cheers
The hails was probably in Brisbane. It gets terrible hail storms at times. And they are quite common, even the huge hailstones. We also have blizzards.
In early 2007 a hailstorm dumped 1 metre of hail and 40mm of rain in the southern suburbs of Canberra (Richardson, Chisholm, Calwell). The stormwater drains couldn't handle the amount of water and debris (mainly trees, but also including concrete slabs that were gouged out of the stormwater drain itself) that occurred in a 30 minute period.
I love thunderstorms and cyclone seasons, not when people's stuff get damages, but just love storms, I remember being in a share house years ago a Korean girl was coming to stay at our place in Brisbane, it was her first day/night here and straight into a massive thunderstorm I told her it's coming in fast and it's gonna be a big one and 1 minute later power was out and massive winds shaking the house with loud thunders going off and lighting Poor girl was screaming so much hiding on the couch, mean while I'm on the balcony enjoying every minute of it Once again love you reacting to us Aussies etc, great channel
The footage just after the (i'm guessing a big spider was the thing blacked out) was taken about 1 mile from where i was living at the time. it was one of the worst storms in years and a lot of wind and hail damage to several suburbs. The building i lived in the bottom floor flat of had part of the roof torn off. The rain and wind was so bad i could not see the fence 30 feet from my front door.
Dust devils form by the hot air rising off the ground so fast that it creates a vortex, the cold air then sinks back down the center. Hot, flat and very dry places can all create them if the conditions are right. I remember seeing a tiny one a beach as a child.
In summer, if the sky turns green - get what you can, including cars under cover, the hail is coming... And yes, it is baseball size or bigger so stay indoors - it can kill you if it hits you... A fun game that we used to play when a hail storm hit was to take turns to run to the letter box and back and count your bruises...
We have hail storms frequently in Australia. The recent one that impacted my suburb (Berowra Heights and surrounding areas) had large hailstone like the ones at the start of the video. We were lucky to have a corrugated iron roof but a lot of newer houses in our suburbs didn't. Their concrete or terracotta tile were smashed then 20 minutes later the torrential rains came and flooded them out. From the air every second house was covered in blue tarps for years after the storm as people dealt with insurance companies and shortage of roofers. I was lucky and came off lightly with two damaged boats, smashed Jeep (the A pillar was dented which shows you just how hard those hailstones hit), smashed windows, smashed carports, holes smashed through polycarbonate veranda roofs like shotgun blasts, smashed solar panels (we had 39 panels on the roof). The last thing you would want to do is be stuck out in the open without cover.
We had a massive storm here in Melbourne nearly 2 years ago. Here in the Dandenong Ranges, the wind blew over tens of thousands of giant trees. Now to be clear, it is not unknown for trees to fall over when the wind picks up, but this was on a whole new terrifying level. It rendered over 70 homes uninhabitable and caused massive damage to many more after monstrous mountain ash trees smashed through them. Some properties have been deemed unsafe to rebuild as they have lost so much vegetation that binds the soil that the land is now susceptible to landslides. We were lucky suffering virtually no damage, but our house used to look into a forest. It now overlooks a valley. Just looking out one window, I counted 14 of these giant trees that were literally snapped in half. Many times more than that were blown over entirely. We didn't just have trees lying across the road. The roads were literally metres deep in debris. It took two weeks to rebuild the electricity supply infrastructure to the point where the power was able to be restored using generators distributed around the streets. It took a lot more time to restore it fully. Even after this event, many trees had been so weakened that even normal wind gusts were blowing them over. One house I regularly passed on my way to the supermarket was down a hill and a tree by the roadside fell and smashed to as well as its roots lifting and taking out half of the road. The house has since been demolished and is now a vacant block. After this event, I was talking to a guy who had just moved here from Queensland. "I don't care what anyone says, it was a cyclone" was his comment. The conventional wisdom is that Melbourne is too far away from the equator to have cyclones.
At 6:30 that dust twister thing known locally as a willy willy was a not uncommon site out in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. I saw a few when working out there on Roy Hill Mine.
We get hail a couple of times a year in Sydney. Usually more like m&m or skittles size, but in a severe storm up to gold ball but that would only be in certain areas. The baseball sized stuff would be pretty rare. A lot of the drive rain and falling branches stuff is pretty normal for a once or twice a year type storm.
I was born and raised in Mildura, Victoria. Hail is rare here. Maybe once a year, maybe less. But I hear it's more common in tropical environments (north NSW, and QLD).
That last clip with the trampoline reminds me of a tradigy that happened here in tassie a few years ago "Six children were killed in 2021 when an inflatable bouncy castle was lifted into the air by strong winds at an end of year school event in Tasmania."
I've been through a few hail storms, I'm north of Brisbane and we've had some major hail storms, biggest hail I've held was bigger than a golfball but smaller than a baseball, they do some serious damage to property, I can't recall any deaths from hail though, most are smart enough to stay under cover I guess. when I was in my early 20's I remember being at a shop across from a car dealership, there was a long hail storm, like maybe 7-10 minutes of constant hail, I think all the cars were rightoff's after the storm, we all just stayed under cover looking at the carnage.
Yep, live in Brisbane Queensland and as a nurse have had to drive to work in conditions like that as I work in the oncology unit of a hospital and due to flooding we were short staffed. Very scary, especially at night. Luckily have not been caught in a hailstorm for many years. In 2020 there were huge hailstones the size of a softball.
I used to live in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and went through many cyclones. Most of the top half of Australia, WA, NT & Qld all get cyclones during the monsoon season, November to April.
In the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires I was driving along the Hume highway in Melbourne, came to a major intersection and stopped at the red light. I remember the sky turning dark, black and then the dust and ash came , we couldn't do anything you couldn't see a hand in front of your face. It was just like those dust storms on the video but the day turned to night, it was so scary I'll never forget it.
When I was about four, we had our trampoline in the back yard go over our neighbors fence during a cyclone. It flew from one side of the yard to over their fence in a span of about 5 seconds. The windows and roller shutters were flexing the wind was that strong.
In Syd where we live, we get at least 3-4 good hail storms each season. However it is very specific to the regions in which you live. 2 suburbs away and the hail may be a rare occurrence. It has a lot to do with geography. However storms with strong wind and a lot of rain are common across the eastern seaboard of Australia during the summer months.
Had a hail storm hit Port Augusta, SA, in Sept 2022. My gardens were ruined, river running down my driveway because the road was flooded. There was 2 - 2/5 " of hail in my backyard. Looked like it snowed out the front of my place. The wind that came with it was intense.
I used to live in the Kimberley in northern Western Australia and up there they only have 2 seasons The Wet and The Dry in the wet season you can actually hear and feel the rain coming before it hits and sounds like a stampede of Buffalo the you see this massive wall of water and storm clouds it's like nothing I have ever experienced. I live and grew up on the south coast of NSW 100km south of Sydney in the 5th largest city in the country Wollongong ( pronounced Wool-on-gong which means Five Island in the language of the Dharawal people the Traditional Owners of this land)
I freaked out recently in a storm in lithgow with hail (sydney australia) but ive never seen hailstones in 45 years the size of tennis balls like that clip lol ive lived in castle hill baulkham hills and five dock before moving to Lithgow.
I live in Brisbane, Australia and in summer we can get some ferocious severe storms that have strong winds and hail. Hail isn't common in every storm but is always a possibility.
Hails about once a year here about 2hours south of Sydney but not usually like that. They are usually only about 1-2cm 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter. Summer storms are common.
i love the way you say you cant leave that trampoline not tied down when you know theres a storm coming if it comes noone has to tie anything down leggally
I'm Australian & 65yrs old. Ive NEVER seen storms or hail like that except on tv when the rare cyclone hits just a few parts of the State of Queensland with yrs in between with none at all. The biggest hailstones Ive encountered persona;lly is the rare one thats fallen in a hailstorm at less than half an inch. Hailstorms only hit once every 8yrs on average & only last for a few mins usually, & with small hailstones. Most of us have never encountered a cyclone. Weather here is really great for 85% of us who live close to the coast.
The worst storm I remember in Perth was in around late May 2010. I remember that, because I was at university attending a lecture on property law. We were in the biggest lecture hall at Murdoch University, which is normally pretty well insulated, but all we could hear was a very heavy downpour. Then it was time to go home. I got absolutely soaked just walking about 20 metres to my car. Some of the streets were flooded on the way home. By comparison to what was shown here, though, that was mild.
I got caught in that! The water came up to my car window in a flash flood. Never seen anything like it since in Perth. Over east the lightening storms can be wicked, but amazingly beautiful to watch
Queensland in the Summer! These kind of storms happen multiple times a year especially in south-east Queensland area. They had DVD sized hail on the Queensland election day in 2020!
Dust devils are common in the outback but also in bare agricultural land during summer. In fact when we were kids living in the outer suburbs of Adelaide we would get a series of them whirling across the land on a moderately warm to hot summers day. We would try to intercept them on our bicycles. They are spectacular but not dangerous.
The large ones that can appear in the outback can be dangerous. I've seen them push a large tourist coach onto the wrong side of the road, remove the entire roof of a house, demolish a shed... I was driving an old 80's Ford Econovan that got hit by one and it completely threw it off the road and caused it to roll a few times, that was an interesting experience.
I live in Canberra but I’ve lived in Sydney & a small country town called Casino. Casino had hail storms & floods every year (I swam home from school once). I’ve seen those dust devils there too. When we were 8, my best friend & I had to cling to each other for safety (we’re heavier together) from a dust devil. That spiral was still strong enough to pick us up an inch or so from the ground. We dropped back to our feet when it moved on & disappeared*. Sydney had hail more often & some impressive thunderstorms as well as high winds. Canberra has even more wind (you can feel it moving the car while you’re driving) & occasionally a hail storm. IMO Sydney has the most hailstorms * Weirdest thing that ever happened to me & I’ve had an eventful 4 decades
Here is Adelaide in South Australia we can get some serious heat in summer. The air is so dry it hurts your lungs to breath. A few years ago we had a heat wave of almost 10 days over 40 celcius, thats about 112 in Fahrenheit
We have a corridor of suburbs in Brisbane that have bad hail from January to March. My car was in one of these suburbs visiting and was written off by baseball sized hail in 2014. I think it's the same storm in your video.
I live in a little town called Gladstone we get thunderstorms and normal storms multiple times a year but hail here in Gladstone. Hail is a different story can’t remember the last time I saw hail here, let alone the size of golf ball’s or larger.
North Shore of Sydney where I live I've seen hail only twice, it's more likely to be in Western Sydney! During strong storms, everyone just gets under cover, if you cannot cover your car or windows you may have big problems! Cyclones are common in Northern Australia, and the outer Pacific Islands - similar to Florida! We have had some strange weather, heavier rain and stronger winds recently, you just read the forecast, secure things and wait it out inside! Check on friends! 😫🙋
Was working in Bella Vista (NW Sydney) in an office with glass skylights & a hailstorm took out that glass. Ironically at the offices of the builders/developers of that building.
I had a client that used to be a professional passionfruit grower and got caught out in a hail storm. He had two dogs over his head, carrying them to safety and they were minced in a 300m run . So was Vince's arms.
Usually get a few hail storm every summer. You just have to pray that your car is in the garage at the time lol. I've never seen hail as big as in some of the videos though in the suburb I live (Hunter Valley, NSW)
We had a massive stormin Brisbane yesterday. I was driving in it. The freeway signs dropped from 100 kph to 80. The visibility was very low. Most vehicles were travelling at 60kph because it was do hard to see the lines. Glad I have a all wheel drive. I haven't heard of any damage other than some car accidents.
Hey JPS - don't know about the 'snowballs', but at 1:30 when a lady mentions Merivale St, that's in Brisbane, capital of QLD, if that helps you get your bearings. Wouldn't be at all surprised if your 'snowballs' are from up our way too - probably a bit more north, would be my instinct
I’m from Perth and it hardly ever hails here. If it does it’s only small pieces of hail, although, we had a freak hailstorm a few years back with massive pieces of hail that ruined everyone’s cars.
Those dust devils, also called Willy Willies in Australia, don't just occur in the outback. I once came home from school to find our neighbour's carport on our other neighbour's basketball hoop after a willy willy formed inside the carport and blew it up. This was in a suburb of Perth.
Queenslander here, I live in country rural area and storms like these are normal in summer … Australia is a land of extremes. Everything from hail, floods, fires to dust storms is pretty much the norm.
Truthfully, though, we do pretty epic storms right across the country - I don't imagine Tassie gets too many hailstorms, but it has its own specialties of weather hell
In the outback where I am, dust storms and what you call dust devils - they're called a willy willy here - are very common. The willy willies are a bit of a pain with regards to insurance companies, as they don't appear on any weather readings and most commonly appear on hot windless cloudless days. Try explaining to an insurance agent that lives in Sydney and never seen how big and strong a willy willy can get that your roof was ripped apart or your car was damaged by one when all the weather reports say it was a perfectly calm sunny day!
my hometown in South Australia dodged what could've been a gnarly storm a few years ago. Radar was indicating hail that would possibly have been in the range of 11cm+ (grapefruit/softball sized), the damage would've been catastrophic if it'd passed through town but thankfully it went to our north and dissipated out in the middle of nowhere
"Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed." :P The best thing is that most of these clips aren't from cyclones (i.e. hurricanes) but just from intense tropical and sub-tropical storms. Cyclone-prone areas tend to be much better prepared, whereas in the areas further south the cities just aren't built for it - hence the 2022 floods in Brisbane.
Most of those storms are in Queensland and NSW that's one of the reasons i live in Adelaide which has more moderate climate although can get a bit warm at times. Adelaide usually has a nice type 4 season Mediterranean climate.
We used to live in Woodstock and only ever seen hail twice (in a tin shed was like gun shots for an hour, cattle were all brused up) but now further up north never have seen or heard of hail hitting. Not 100% sure but seems to be a more southern thing but I'm only 22 so could happen maybe
I live in South Australia, mate. In 32 years, I've never lived through anything like that. Ya, hear of storms of that magnitude happening in Melbourne and Sydney more than anywhere else.
Melbourne here, we have storms like this all the time. The hail is full on. Years back the hail was so bad my car got so damaged, the insurance company paid to beat out all the damaged & respray my whole car. It was a mess!! Ohh & I was in one of those dust storms when I was 6, lucky mum rushed us into the car in time. It was so scary. It looked like the end of the world, they are really loud too.
I went to Brisbane to see my Brother in Milton we went to a shopping centre and it just just pouring with rain we woke up the next day to find ourselves in the biggest flood in over 100 years even 200, 300, 600, 1000 years in other areas the worst hit was Lismore with water as high as traffic lights up to rooftops on a 2 story house in some areas
Im from Melbourne and we're famous for having 4 seasons in one day, from hail to sunshine in 20mins. If they had included bands of dry lightening, (storms that do not include rain) in their definition of a storm, bush and grass fires would have been included as much as flood and hail. I worked in bushfire response logistics for 12 years and we used to watch the Lightening Tracker and the Fire Map side by side. Within 30 mins of a band of dry lightening going through fire prone areas, fires would start appearing on the Fire Map. Wind and dry lightening striking oil laden trees including native eucalyptus and pine plantations, can be a devastating combo. A lot of research from the last decade shows that bushfires can create their own weather patterns, the heat and energy coming off the fire hit the already destabilised atmosphere where the storm is sitting, making the weather even more unstable and less predictable. The fire's weather pattern can develop into a fire tornado; where the winds could end up taking out your place or they could end up saving your place, when a wind change hits just in time and changes the path of the fire. I've been out in burnt out areas and you can literally see the edge of the fire stopping right near unburned properties. Here's a good video explaining it better than I can, it's 9 years old and our research has continued to grow as we've learnt more from fires, but it is still a good video for explaining this. ruclips.net/video/rqYEeivt8Eg/видео.html
When the sky is green........it’s gonna hail.
There’s a hailstorm corridor in Sydney that runs a few suburbs in particular but it hails everywhere. The worst corridor one was quite a few years ago now. Cars were written off and houses were hit hard with roof tiles being smashed. It took something like 18 months before all houses had the roof tiles replaced. Blue tarps were on rooves everywhere.
If that was the one in the late 90s, I was in Randwick.
@@mattp6089 yea, that’s the one.
Yes. I was living in Surry Hills and every tiled roof in the suburb was damaged, including Sydney Boys High School where I was then teaching. "At approximately 7.45pm on 14 April 1999, a torrential hailstorm hit Sydney's inner and eastern suburbs, damaging thousands of homes and cars. Hailstones the size of cricket balls hit the city at more than 200 kilometres per hour."
@@neilwhitfield5026 how no one died or severely injured is a miracle
Its been a couple of decades since we had such damaging hail in Victoria.
Sydney dweller here - hail storms are common during Summer but fortunately the storms with massive hail stones aren't as frequent. My suburb was the victim (yes victim) of a massive hail storm in December 2007. I don't think there was one house in the suburb that didn't sustain huge damage. Our newly built house (the builder had only given us the keys the week before) had to have it's concrete tiled roof completely replaced. The fly screens on two sides of our house were shredded and one window (safety glass thank goodness, was smashed). Our car which was unfortunately parked outside was written off (every window smashed) and the door lock had been smashed into the interior of the door so just a hole was where the door lock had been, the panels were dimpled like an orange. A neighbour had run out to drive their car into their garage as the hail started and sustained a skull fracture from a large hail stone. I have to admit that even cherry stone sized hail still triggers a bit of panic in us now, all these years later. But other than that, the weather's great!
That sounds just terrifying. Bankstown area? That's usually pretty bad.
It can happen in Melbourne as well. It's just so random in that a couple of suburbs will cop the destruction and not others, One year it destroyed our pergola in the backyard. Could have been heaps worse but, I am waiting for the huge pine tree to fall on our roof.
@@lindasweeney969 Blacktown
Im in Newcastle hail storms are common but as Nancy said the larger hail stones are not as common or frequent Thank goodness.
@@margaretsmith4441 Hunter Valley myself, true big hail isnt common but storms in general yes.
Perhaps @MoreJps could look for the Pasha Bulka incident.
On my first trip to Australia I was told that there was a cyclone warning. Then, getting to the hotel there was a sign about cyclones in the room. It said if a cyclone is expected fill the bath with water. However, should the hotel start to break up empty the bath and get in it! Fortunately for us it hit landfall a bit further along the coast. It didn't put me off Australia though as I had a great time. So much to see and really friendly people, a great country to visit.
Why are you meant to fill the bath with water?
@shadow kyber in case there is no clean drinking water afterward.
Standard practice, fresh water becomes a huge problem in the aftermath 👍 fill the bath, tape the windows, chain and lock down outdoor furniture, there's a drill you learn from childhood lol
Certainly heard Brisbane mentioned a lot there, and as a local I can confirm we do have a lot of storms during spring and summer although I haven't noticed as many this year (although surrounding area's have definitely copped it). Whether you get hail depends on the severity and the severity can honestly depend on the suburb you live in.
In a cruel twist of irony growing up in a place with lots of storms, I was terribly afraid of storms as a child.
Yeah mate I live near Kingaroy, we have had 5 or so crackers out here. 👍
A lot is an understatement in a proper Storm Season but this year has been quite calm.
Me
Though we did have massive floods all along the east coast the previous year
That jump scare when they mentioned spiders, classic Joel🤣🤣
All I saw was a black screen
yep..had to cut the spider out because of youtube's imposing policies
😅 spider ban in place
@@k.vn.k 🤣🤣
spider ban? you mean like these?🕷🕸🕷🕸🕷🕸🕷🕸🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾foot prints of the mega mountain spider, 4lbs in weight and 3 foot legspan! They will grab puppies off the lead!😱
Queenslander here, can definitely say that winds that are so powerful that blow you off your feet do happen, especially if it is due to a cyclone, don't go outside if you can avoid it if these are near.
Hailstorms with hail the size of golf balls and larger aren't that common, maybe 1 or 2 a year in any given area, storms with smaller hail however are pretty common.
You should check out some before and during flood videos, some times we don't use normal metrics like how many metres we've been flooded, we gauge it by how far under our local Maccas went :P Brisbane Milton Maccas was not too bad in 2011, Lismore Maccas in 2022 was extreme.
Yeah, my uncles place went under, and my school was sending books and stuff to all the schools. Wild year last year
Back in the '80's a massive sandstorm hit Melbourne. Literally turned day into night. Very eerie!
I was driving in that and could see it getting closer. It was creepy. Only one I’ve ever seen. Got home safely. Where were you? Inside or out? Glad we don’t get weather like they do up north in vid, looks terrifying.
I remember it like yesterday. It was in 1983 and I was walking home from school. I thought it was a total eclipse. LOL. Then we had the fires in the outer south east. Funnily enough I am living about 5 kms where the fires were 40 years ago and you would never know the destruction they caused.
@@bernadettelanders7306 I was at work, watching through the window.
@@Alpha_7227 oh I remember. We could see the hills from our place. ( think it was that one, or the other fire, few years later, up there was terrible. Actually could see the wind change that halted the fires from meeting in the middle. Would have wiped out the D'nongs if that had happened.)
The sandstorm that hit Melbourne was very similar to the sandstorms in the video.
I was walking around in the city during my lunch break when it hit. I could see it approaching and waited it out in a shop until it passed. It was very weird but did not seem to cause much in the way of damage, although the owner of the convertible I passed afterwards who had parked with the top down and had a car full of sand may beg to differ.
Despite living through storms that damaged my car and almost squashed the house in Victoria, I'm still more worried about dry summer electrical storms. Wildfire from a lightning strike is always a huge risk to consider in my area. If the conditions are bad, and you don't evacuate soon enough, you're toast. Very burnt toast.
Hail is pretty common. There was a huge hail storm in Canberra in early 2020 destroyed many things including thousands of cars.
i live in central queensland, in a beach town called yeppoon and we see hail MAYBE once or twice a year. the last time we had hail, we had lots of tennis ball sized hail. my uncle got struck in the shoulder by one trying to get the family dog to safety, it dislocated the shoulder and gave him the darkest bruise i've ever seen
My mother's neighbor's daughter emigrated to Australia (Brisbane) from Germany 35 years ago. She visited Germany a few years ago and was not used to 19C in the summer and froze miserably for the whole three weeks. She mentioned that the year before she had to have her windshield replaced three times because of hail. When it rained heavily and her mother's garden was a bit under water, she didn't dare to go into the garden at first, until she remembered that snakes aren't a problem here.😂
That's because 19 degrees is winter for us 😁
A friend of mine lived 50 yrs of her life in Newcastle ,she now has been living in Mt isa the last 10yrs whenever she comes to Newy for a visit she is always cold even in a summer visit but more so a winter visit lol.
The small dust whirl winds are called Willy Willies is North and Outback Queensland.
These kind of storms happen alot at certain times of the year.
The longer you go without a bad one, you know a bad one will hit.
The hail storms are common, but come without warning, had one here in Perth some 12+ years back, avwrage day and 2-3 suburbs got wreaked, lasted minutes but the damage was excessive.
If you have not done already, look at the -2020 bushfires - its beyond insane
-2022 floods - some areas flooded 30-50 feet in your measurements.
Yarloop fire here in Western Australia was a bad one, levelled a whole town, literally.
Fires got so hot the cars and rims literally started melting.
Yep, that Waroona fire was something else!! I lived close by and had friends of the family helping with the fires driving the heavy machinery to clear paths ect amongst the fires. One of the guys has always been to fires anywhere needed in the South West to drive the machinery and has experienced some of the bad ones like in Esperance and Margaret River. Our family farm was right on the edge of lockout so was impossible for my family to get in and out of their road in Brunswick as it was classed as the boundary. Instead of driving the heavy machinery back on large trucks to Bunbury everyday after their shifts, they left them at our farm as it was simple access and literally just off the highway and it a lot easier but even they had trouble some days getting the trucks back there as Police wouldn't let them onto the road. Anyway, my Mum kept them fed in between shifts and was getting constant updates on how it was going. She said she had never seen someone affected as badly as this fire, she said he was just white as a ghost after Yarloop disappeared. She had spoken to and seen him after he's helped with other massive fires but this one really shook him. He also grew up in the Harvey area and and had family and friends there also but was in the Yarloop area at the time when it was basically engulfed!! He said with all the bad fires he had been at, he had never seen anything like it before. The town was there one minute, then gone the next, literally!! I remember driving through Yarloop when the highway had reopened again and it was the most chilling and eerie feeling I've even had, gave me chills every time I drove through the town. We had a lot of friends of the family who's farms were hit, thankfully not losing much thankfully with all family hands on deck helping to put out spot fires. One of them asked how bad it was when it was approaching her property, the firefighters just told her to simply go, there was nothing going to stop it and they've never seen anything like it before. She said that these were well experienced fire fighters. Her farm was hit on boundaries and thankfully they got it under control towards the end and it didn't got much further than her property. I was suppose to go and stay at my family farm that week it had started but was told told that I probably wouldn't be able to access the road and to stay were I was as they may need to evacuate to my place. My mum had bags packed and was coming to my place in Collie, no way was she going to stay if it got any closer after what she had heard. I was on standby to have an influx of family in my tiny 2 bed place, even it if was just to get away from the constant thick smoke. People were so helpful at the time and offered caravans and tents to put on my large block for family if I need it but thankfully didn't. My Aunty had to drive from Perth to pick up my Grandmother in Harvey who was in an elderly home that was being evacuated. Due to both major highways being in the middle of the fire and shut down, it took her 6 hours to get there. As the only road was Albany highway to get to the South West area, we had massive traffic jams here in Collie as it was the only stop for fuel out this way or for travelling further South. Our poor 3 fuel stations struggled to keep up and people had to get what was left. The fuel trucks were pretty much constantly trying to supply Collie to keep up with the demand. I think people were even told not to travel to the South West unless absolutely necessary but was still absolutely crazy here. Then you got some idiots who complained that they had to pay for premium prices as they re wasn't any regular fuel left. I shook my head at those ones, they should have been grateful for what fuel they could get in that situation!! Police had to direct traffic on the main road in Collie as it runs through the middle of town. Locals couldn't cross the main road to the other side of town due the amount of constant traffic flow. We had the normal traffic travelling South plus many who were evacuating loaded up with trailers, caravans ect heading into the South West area. It was absolutely crazy here for weeks!! That was one hell of scary fire for sure. Every time we have a massive lightening storm now during summer, all that comes to mind is that Waroona fire and hope we never had another one like it!!
I remember a bad hail storm in the early 2000's when a narrow band storm system went through Yellow Rock in the Blue Mountains. Every house with a tile roof had it's tiles smashed and of course in a hail storm you get heavy rain too and all their ceilings were flooded. But every home that had a colourbond or corrugated iron roof didn't suffer any leaks. Sure they were dented badly but they didn't leak. Many homes built now have a colourbond roof in preference to concrete tiles for it's far cheaper and can take wild storms because the metal is screwed to the roof timbers whereas concrete tiles only sit using their weight to keep them in place. But if a wind is strong enough it will lift them off and always with that wind comes rain.
That first clip of the large hail happened around the Springfield lakes area in Queensland and caused so much damage.
search - springfield lakes hail storm 2020 on youtube for news reports on the damage
I live around Springfield
@@Nationality_is_back Its a nice area, I was visiting my sister when that storm rolled in.
Fascinating video Joel. Those were the best dust devils I've ever seen - only little ones here and water spouts. The hail was spectacular. Alberta gets it so bad, that it has to shoveled like snow. Those rain and wind scenes were wild!!! Have a great weekend everyone. John in Canada
We’ve had hail like that in Sydney. It’s not often that big though! We have lots of holes in our outdoor pergola from hail just last year!
We’ve had to fix our’s so many times (western Sydney) due to the hail 😂 the last hail storm brought huge ones, we’ve kept one in the garage freezer
Wow Doc. I’ve never seen hail that big in Vic. I remember a few small hailstones on Christmas Day about 10 or 15 yrs ago. I had to take a pic 😊
I live on the coast in Northern NSW. We get thunderstorms and hail every year.That massive hail storm was a couple of years back ,with the giant size hail hitting us first before traveling to the Gold Coast Qld. It came from nowhere and one knocked my neighbour clean out. In the last 3 years we have been evacuated twice from fires and three times for floods. Crazy weather.
Generally massive hailstorms like that are not that common here in Oz, it depends which part of Australia it is. Up in the more tropical areas, Northern New South Wales and Queensland there are more storms like that, but generally not a really regular occurance that you get hail like that. Ive seen a particularly bad hail storm here in Coffs Harbour, NSW, where a freak hailstorm hit out of no where, I can just remember how loud it was and how quickly my workplace was flooded. Amazing.
Brisbane, Queensland- hail storm capital of Australia.
Years ago I we went to Brisbane, it was absolutely pouring harder than I’ve ever seen. I noticed the locals didn’t bat an eye lid lol.
Melbourne here. Friends move up, copped those last floods but built high. An old fridge floated out of underneath carport - total strangers found it, towed it back and found the owners - guess u all look after each other during those weather conditions 😊👍
Hail is pretty common in summer, we’ll usually get three or four hail storms each year (both in sydney and all along the east coast) or more depending on the temps and weather patterns.
We also had a hailstorm that ripped across Melbourne in an hour, then hit the Dandenong Ranges just east of the city, bounced back, and smashed a suburb in the foothills
Also, riding a motorcycle in hail stings like a bugger!
Melbourne is usually a bit calmer when it comes to extreme weather events, the largest hailstone I've seen was only golfball sized. The tropical storms up north get absolutely crazy.
The wild weather of Australia ~
We had a huge hailstorm here in Perth 7-8 yrs ago. Car yards where the worst hit, I remember them having way more clearance sales after that. (I’m guessing that insurance didn’t cover the panel damage)
A friend of mine is originally from Swan Hill, Mildura, and she often talks about those orange dust storms.
Hail is very common almost everywhere in Australia. We average 7 cyclones per year. During the recent flood events over the last two years some places in Queensland and New South Wales received 30 inches of rain in 24 hours. We are still having major floods in northern Queensland at the moment- a year's worth of rain in 48 hours. California will have the same issues over the next 2 years as the La Nina events here will move north from our Pacific coast to North America.
Luck here in my part of northern Illawarra. I've only ever seen hail twice here, my area anyway. Both times were earlier this year and the hail was no bigger than peas.
Probably shouldn't gloat so soon though, might come back to bite big balls of hail.
hail is very common in nsw, you can almost always expect it with every storm
It hails in Sydney once every couple of year, generally not too bad and last about 10-30 mins. Its just that our weather has mood swings, it can be nice and sunny with no clouds then 30 mins later you have 80km winds and heavy rain but this is typically during summer.
Where I live on the Gold Coast, in 23 years we've have hail storms 4 times
I'm in Townsville in North Queensland and we have had hail recorded 3 times. The largest stones were the size of peas. Down south, from around Gympie down they happen a couple of times a year.
I recall the dust storm that swept over Sydney a few years back now. When I woke up and 1st looked out the window I thought WTF is going on. Everything had an orange to it which was the dust that came over night. Even the sky was sort of hazy too. It looked like an apocalypse has occurred.
September 2009... it hit where I live the day before it got to Sydney, around 2.30pm, turned the sky completely black, couldn't see your hand in front of your face, even a powerful flood light only travelled about a metre or two before it was blocked by density of the dust. That same year we had over a dozen other dust storms that turned the sky red or orange like Sydney experienced, with dozens more smaller ones that gave the sky a much more dim orangish dirty appearance. Those ones didn't make it so far across the country though.
There's only one thing I don't miss about living in Brissie (Brisbane) those sudden, violent Summer Storms. I lived through two of them as a little girl, I moved to Far North Queensland at 13. A couple of blocks away the roof from one block of flats landed on top of another one. This huge stuffed toy dog landed in My Best Friends backyard about half a block away. One day at school part of the roof torn off. We were all huddled under the teacher's desk. Another time it was announced that a car dealership was having a storm damage sale. The cars had massive indented from big hailstones. My all time favourite band is Bon Jovi and once had the chance to get cheap tickets to their concert. Unfortunately wasn't brave enough to go, at the very least I was concerned for their safety. I really don't understand why they seem to choose open-air venues during summer. We have a perfectly good Entertainment Centre they could use. Yes we get cyclones but I live in the mountains, namely The Atherton Tablelands. A cyclone has to be huge to effect us. I'm starting another comment.
That waterspout is very rare. Also with our weather it can change in a matter of minutes, 40degree day can turn into a crazy thunderstorm like that in a matter of minutes
Melbourne will usually get hail 2-3 times during a winter.
Melbourne usually gets its rain more in winter and spring when it's cold but is very dry in summer as it has a temperate climate, whereas Sydney and Brisbane (both of which get much more annual rain than Melbourne) get most of their rain in summer and autumn as they have humid sub-tropical climates.
As a result, in summer Queensland and New South Wales can experience flooding at the same time that Victoria is bone dry and burning with bushfires.
But don’t forget the massive tempo drops/cool change and thunderstorms after hot summer days.
@@brasschick4214 That is true, I actually love the temperature drops because after 3 days of 35+ degree weather, nothing is more refreshing than a sudden drop to 22-23! I couldn't imagine living in a humid climate with no reprieve from the heat.
Tropical North Australia have cyclones every summer and places like Soth East Queensland have severe storms as a result. We battle huge bushfires one week and have severe flooding the next
One of my favourite tourist attractions in Darwin (and to be fair, there aren’t too many tourist attractions in Darwin 😂) is a huge iron support beam for a building that was tied in a knot by cyclone Tracy in the 70s. They left it in the city centre as a sculpture after they rebuilt. The weather here can definitely get pretty wild on occasion!
Cyclone Tracey hit Darwin on either Christmas eve or Christmas day 1974 and completely destroyed Darwin
santa ever made it to dawin is one song that really captures the fright ppl where in
Being from Toowoomba Queensland, we typically escape the majority of major weather events, they biggest one I can think of was the floods back in 2011
Hi mate summer storms, I lived in Queensland, the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Toowoomba they can get a bit windy blowing trees down and stuff and hail occasionally, never seen it as big as that, but marble size, they are not rare. If the spiders don't get you the weather will Cheers
The hails was probably in Brisbane. It gets terrible hail storms at times. And they are quite common, even the huge hailstones. We also have blizzards.
In early 2007 a hailstorm dumped 1 metre of hail and 40mm of rain in the southern suburbs of Canberra (Richardson, Chisholm, Calwell). The stormwater drains couldn't handle the amount of water and debris (mainly trees, but also including concrete slabs that were gouged out of the stormwater drain itself) that occurred in a 30 minute period.
I love thunderstorms and cyclone seasons, not when people's stuff get damages, but just love storms,
I remember being in a share house years ago a Korean girl was coming to stay at our place in Brisbane, it was her first day/night here and straight into a massive thunderstorm
I told her it's coming in fast and it's gonna be a big one and 1 minute later power was out and massive winds shaking the house with loud thunders going off and lighting
Poor girl was screaming so much hiding on the couch, mean while I'm on the balcony enjoying every minute of it
Once again love you reacting to us Aussies etc, great channel
The footage just after the (i'm guessing a big spider was the thing blacked out) was taken about 1 mile from where i was living at the time. it was one of the worst storms in years and a lot of wind and hail damage to several suburbs. The building i lived in the bottom floor flat of had part of the roof torn off. The rain and wind was so bad i could not see the fence 30 feet from my front door.
Dust devils form by the hot air rising off the ground so fast that it creates a vortex, the cold air then sinks back down the center.
Hot, flat and very dry places can all create them if the conditions are right. I remember seeing a tiny one a beach as a child.
I live 300 km Nth of Melbourne VIC, and we have had giant hail stones, water spouts, dust storms and Tornados in this area.
There is always either drought or flooding in Australia. Severe summer storm every few years with either damaging winds or hail.
In summer, if the sky turns green - get what you can, including cars under cover, the hail is coming... And yes, it is baseball size or bigger so stay indoors - it can kill you if it hits you...
A fun game that we used to play when a hail storm hit was to take turns to run to the letter box and back and count your bruises...
We have hail storms frequently in Australia. The recent one that impacted my suburb (Berowra Heights and surrounding areas) had large hailstone like the ones at the start of the video. We were lucky to have a corrugated iron roof but a lot of newer houses in our suburbs didn't. Their concrete or terracotta tile were smashed then 20 minutes later the torrential rains came and flooded them out. From the air every second house was covered in blue tarps for years after the storm as people dealt with insurance companies and shortage of roofers. I was lucky and came off lightly with two damaged boats, smashed Jeep (the A pillar was dented which shows you just how hard those hailstones hit), smashed windows, smashed carports, holes smashed through polycarbonate veranda roofs like shotgun blasts, smashed solar panels (we had 39 panels on the roof). The last thing you would want to do is be stuck out in the open without cover.
We had a massive storm here in Melbourne nearly 2 years ago. Here in the Dandenong Ranges, the wind blew over tens of thousands of giant trees. Now to be clear, it is not unknown for trees to fall over when the wind picks up, but this was on a whole new terrifying level. It rendered over 70 homes uninhabitable and caused massive damage to many more after monstrous mountain ash trees smashed through them. Some properties have been deemed unsafe to rebuild as they have lost so much vegetation that binds the soil that the land is now susceptible to landslides.
We were lucky suffering virtually no damage, but our house used to look into a forest. It now overlooks a valley. Just looking out one window, I counted 14 of these giant trees that were literally snapped in half. Many times more than that were blown over entirely. We didn't just have trees lying across the road. The roads were literally metres deep in debris. It took two weeks to rebuild the electricity supply infrastructure to the point where the power was able to be restored using generators distributed around the streets. It took a lot more time to restore it fully. Even after this event, many trees had been so weakened that even normal wind gusts were blowing them over. One house I regularly passed on my way to the supermarket was down a hill and a tree by the roadside fell and smashed to as well as its roots lifting and taking out half of the road. The house has since been demolished and is now a vacant block.
After this event, I was talking to a guy who had just moved here from Queensland. "I don't care what anyone says, it was a cyclone" was his comment. The conventional wisdom is that Melbourne is too far away from the equator to have cyclones.
At 6:30 that dust twister thing known locally as a willy willy was a not uncommon site out in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. I saw a few when working out there on Roy Hill Mine.
We get hail a couple of times a year in Sydney. Usually more like m&m or skittles size, but in a severe storm up to gold ball but that would only be in certain areas. The baseball sized stuff would be pretty rare. A lot of the drive rain and falling branches stuff is pretty normal for a once or twice a year type storm.
I was born and raised in Mildura, Victoria. Hail is rare here. Maybe once a year, maybe less. But I hear it's more common in tropical environments (north NSW, and QLD).
That last clip with the trampoline reminds me of a tradigy that happened here in tassie a few years ago "Six children were killed in 2021 when an inflatable bouncy castle was lifted into the air by strong winds at an end of year school event in Tasmania."
I've been through a few hail storms, I'm north of Brisbane and we've had some major hail storms, biggest hail I've held was bigger than a golfball but smaller than a baseball, they do some serious damage to property, I can't recall any deaths from hail though, most are smart enough to stay under cover I guess. when I was in my early 20's I remember being at a shop across from a car dealership, there was a long hail storm, like maybe 7-10 minutes of constant hail, I think all the cars were rightoff's after the storm, we all just stayed under cover looking at the carnage.
Yep, live in Brisbane Queensland and as a nurse have had to drive to work in conditions like that as I work in the oncology unit of a hospital and due to flooding we were short staffed. Very scary, especially at night. Luckily have not been caught in a hailstorm for many years. In 2020 there were huge hailstones the size of a softball.
That one in Springfield Lakes had the record for largest hail ever at 150mm. The aftermath was like going through a war torn village.
I used to live in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and went through many cyclones. Most of the top half of Australia, WA, NT & Qld all get cyclones during the monsoon season, November to April.
In the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires I was driving along the Hume highway in Melbourne, came to a major intersection and stopped at the red light. I remember the sky turning dark, black and then the dust and ash came , we couldn't do anything you couldn't see a hand in front of your face. It was just like those dust storms on the video but the day turned to night, it was so scary I'll never forget it.
Hail is fairly common on the East Coast during Spring, Summer and early Autumn (fall), but you get used to it.
When I was about four, we had our trampoline in the back yard go over our neighbors fence during a cyclone. It flew from one side of the yard to over their fence in a span of about 5 seconds. The windows and roller shutters were flexing the wind was that strong.
In Syd where we live, we get at least 3-4 good hail storms each season. However it is very specific to the regions in which you live. 2 suburbs away and the hail may be a rare occurrence. It has a lot to do with geography.
However storms with strong wind and a lot of rain are common across the eastern seaboard of Australia during the summer months.
Had a hail storm hit Port Augusta, SA, in Sept 2022. My gardens were ruined, river running down my driveway because the road was flooded. There was 2 - 2/5 " of hail in my backyard. Looked like it snowed out the front of my place. The wind that came with it was intense.
I used to live in the Kimberley in northern Western Australia and up there they only have 2 seasons The Wet and The Dry in the wet season you can actually hear and feel the rain coming before it hits and sounds like a stampede of Buffalo the you see this massive wall of water and storm clouds it's like nothing I have ever experienced. I live and grew up on the south coast of NSW 100km south of Sydney in the 5th largest city in the country Wollongong ( pronounced
Wool-on-gong which means Five Island in the language of the Dharawal people the Traditional Owners of this land)
I freaked out recently in a storm in lithgow with hail (sydney australia) but ive never seen hailstones in 45 years the size of tennis balls like that clip lol ive lived in castle hill baulkham hills and five dock before moving to Lithgow.
I live in Brisbane, Australia and in summer we can get some ferocious severe storms that have strong winds and hail. Hail isn't common in every storm but is always a possibility.
I’m an Australian, I live in Queensland and hail storms are really common through summer and autumn here
Hails about once a year here about 2hours south of Sydney but not usually like that. They are usually only about 1-2cm 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter. Summer storms are common.
i love the way you say you cant leave that trampoline not tied down when you know theres a storm coming if it comes noone has to tie anything down leggally
I'm Australian & 65yrs old. Ive NEVER seen storms or hail like that except on tv when the rare cyclone hits just a few parts of the State of Queensland with yrs in between with none at all. The biggest hailstones Ive encountered persona;lly is the rare one thats fallen in a hailstorm at less than half an inch. Hailstorms only hit once every 8yrs on average & only last for a few mins usually, & with small hailstones. Most of us have never encountered a cyclone. Weather here is really great for 85% of us who live close to the coast.
The worst storm I remember in Perth was in around late May 2010. I remember that, because I was at university attending a lecture on property law. We were in the biggest lecture hall at Murdoch University, which is normally pretty well insulated, but all we could hear was a very heavy downpour. Then it was time to go home. I got absolutely soaked just walking about 20 metres to my car. Some of the streets were flooded on the way home.
By comparison to what was shown here, though, that was mild.
I got caught in that! The water came up to my car window in a flash flood. Never seen anything like it since in Perth. Over east the lightening storms can be wicked, but amazingly beautiful to watch
Queensland in the Summer! These kind of storms happen multiple times a year especially in south-east Queensland area. They had DVD sized hail on the Queensland election day in 2020!
Dust devils are common in the outback but also in bare agricultural land during summer. In fact when we were kids living in the outer suburbs of Adelaide we would get a series of them whirling across the land on a moderately warm to hot summers day. We would try to intercept them on our bicycles. They are spectacular but not dangerous.
The large ones that can appear in the outback can be dangerous. I've seen them push a large tourist coach onto the wrong side of the road, remove the entire roof of a house, demolish a shed... I was driving an old 80's Ford Econovan that got hit by one and it completely threw it off the road and caused it to roll a few times, that was an interesting experience.
That looks like typical hectic Australian storms. Can be very scary but hail is pretty common on the eastern state where I am.
I live in Canberra but I’ve lived in Sydney & a small country town called Casino. Casino had hail storms & floods every year (I swam home from school once). I’ve seen those dust devils there too. When we were 8, my best friend & I had to cling to each other for safety (we’re heavier together) from a dust devil. That spiral was still strong enough to pick us up an inch or so from the ground. We dropped back to our feet when it moved on & disappeared*. Sydney had hail more often & some impressive thunderstorms as well as high winds. Canberra has even more wind (you can feel it moving the car while you’re driving) & occasionally a hail storm. IMO Sydney has the most hailstorms
* Weirdest thing that ever happened to me & I’ve had an eventful 4 decades
Here is Adelaide in South Australia we can get some serious heat in summer. The air is so dry it hurts your lungs to breath.
A few years ago we had a heat wave of almost 10 days over 40 celcius, thats about 112 in Fahrenheit
We have a corridor of suburbs in Brisbane that have bad hail from January to March. My car was in one of these suburbs visiting and was written off by baseball sized hail in 2014. I think it's the same storm in your video.
I live in a little town called Gladstone we get thunderstorms and normal storms multiple times a year but hail here in Gladstone. Hail is a different story can’t remember the last time I saw hail here, let alone the size of golf ball’s or larger.
Dust devils and hail are common where i grew up in New South Wales. I've also seen many water spouts on the beach and on boats out in the ocean
North Shore of Sydney where I live I've seen hail only twice, it's more likely to be in Western Sydney! During strong storms, everyone just gets under cover, if you cannot cover your car or windows you may have big problems! Cyclones are common in Northern Australia, and the outer Pacific Islands - similar to Florida! We have had some strange weather, heavier rain and stronger winds recently, you just read the forecast, secure things and wait it out inside! Check on friends! 😫🙋
I've only ever seen hail twice here in northern Illawarra also, both were earlier this year and only pea size.
Was working in Bella Vista (NW Sydney) in an office with glass skylights & a hailstorm took out that glass. Ironically at the offices of the builders/developers of that building.
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I had a client that used to be a professional passionfruit grower and got caught out in a hail storm.
He had two dogs over his head, carrying them to safety and they were minced in a 300m run . So was Vince's arms.
Usually get a few hail storm every summer. You just have to pray that your car is in the garage at the time lol. I've never seen hail as big as in some of the videos though in the suburb I live (Hunter Valley, NSW)
We had a massive stormin Brisbane yesterday. I was driving in it. The freeway signs dropped from 100 kph to 80. The visibility was very low. Most vehicles were travelling at 60kph because it was do hard to see the lines. Glad I have a all wheel drive. I haven't heard of any damage other than some car accidents.
Hey JPS - don't know about the 'snowballs', but at 1:30 when a lady mentions Merivale St, that's in Brisbane, capital of QLD, if that helps you get your bearings. Wouldn't be at all surprised if your 'snowballs' are from up our way too - probably a bit more north, would be my instinct
I’m from Perth and it hardly ever hails here. If it does it’s only small pieces of hail, although, we had a freak hailstorm a few years back with massive pieces of hail that ruined everyone’s cars.
Those dust devils, also called Willy Willies in Australia, don't just occur in the outback. I once came home from school to find our neighbour's carport on our other neighbour's basketball hoop after a willy willy formed inside the carport and blew it up.
This was in a suburb of Perth.
Queenslander here, I live in country rural area and storms like these are normal in summer … Australia is a land of extremes. Everything from hail, floods, fires to dust storms is pretty much the norm.
Where i live there is a hailstorm one day a year and it's always around June and july
Truthfully, though, we do pretty epic storms right across the country - I don't imagine Tassie gets too many hailstorms, but it has its own specialties of weather hell
In the outback where I am, dust storms and what you call dust devils - they're called a willy willy here - are very common. The willy willies are a bit of a pain with regards to insurance companies, as they don't appear on any weather readings and most commonly appear on hot windless cloudless days. Try explaining to an insurance agent that lives in Sydney and never seen how big and strong a willy willy can get that your roof was ripped apart or your car was damaged by one when all the weather reports say it was a perfectly calm sunny day!
It would be unbelievable if i listened to this exciting commentator ever again.
my hometown in South Australia dodged what could've been a gnarly storm a few years ago. Radar was indicating hail that would possibly have been in the range of 11cm+ (grapefruit/softball sized), the damage would've been catastrophic if it'd passed through town but thankfully it went to our north and dissipated out in the middle of nowhere
"Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed." :P
The best thing is that most of these clips aren't from cyclones (i.e. hurricanes) but just from intense tropical and sub-tropical storms. Cyclone-prone areas tend to be much better prepared, whereas in the areas further south the cities just aren't built for it - hence the 2022 floods in Brisbane.
Most of those storms are in Queensland and NSW that's one of the reasons i live in Adelaide which has more moderate climate although can get a bit warm at times. Adelaide usually has a nice type 4 season Mediterranean climate.
In Sydney every Summer we get at least 3 hail storms. Most are mild but every now and then you get a doozy
We used to live in Woodstock and only ever seen hail twice (in a tin shed was like gun shots for an hour, cattle were all brused up) but now further up north never have seen or heard of hail hitting. Not 100% sure but seems to be a more southern thing but I'm only 22 so could happen maybe
I live in Wollongong NSW and last year during a storm we had five waterspouts at the same time in a row along the coast
I live in South Australia, mate. In 32 years, I've never lived through anything like that. Ya, hear of storms of that magnitude happening in Melbourne and Sydney more than anywhere else.
There's a hilarious photo from 2014 after a hailstorm in Brisbane city, where someone put some Christmas baubles on a pile of hailstones.
Hail happens a LOT. No matter where you are in Australia. I've lived all over the East coast and I've always seen hail in most severe storms.
Melbourne here, we have storms like this all the time.
The hail is full on.
Years back the hail was so bad my car got so damaged, the insurance company paid to beat out all the damaged & respray my whole car.
It was a mess!!
Ohh & I was in one of those dust storms when I was 6, lucky mum rushed us into the car in time. It was so scary.
It looked like the end of the world, they are really loud too.
I went to Brisbane to see my Brother in Milton we went to a shopping centre and it just just pouring with rain we woke up the next day to find ourselves in the biggest flood in over 100 years even 200, 300, 600, 1000 years in other areas the worst hit was Lismore with water as high as traffic lights up to rooftops on a 2 story house in some areas
Im from Melbourne and we're famous for having 4 seasons in one day, from hail to sunshine in 20mins.
If they had included bands of dry lightening, (storms that do not include rain) in their definition of a storm, bush and grass fires would have been included as much as flood and hail.
I worked in bushfire response logistics for 12 years and we used to watch the Lightening Tracker and the Fire Map side by side. Within 30 mins of a band of dry lightening going through fire prone areas, fires would start appearing on the Fire Map. Wind and dry lightening striking oil laden trees including native eucalyptus and pine plantations, can be a devastating combo.
A lot of research from the last decade shows that bushfires can create their own weather patterns, the heat and energy coming off the fire hit the already destabilised atmosphere where the storm is sitting, making the weather even more unstable and less predictable.
The fire's weather pattern can develop into a fire tornado; where the winds could end up taking out your place or they could end up saving your place, when a wind change hits just in time and changes the path of the fire. I've been out in burnt out areas and you can literally see the edge of the fire stopping right near unburned properties.
Here's a good video explaining it better than I can, it's 9 years old and our research has continued to grow as we've learnt more from fires, but it is still a good video for explaining this.
ruclips.net/video/rqYEeivt8Eg/видео.html