Sunday, March 07, 2010

Super cell storm in Melbourne



It was a hot day and the sky was clear, all but a few white plumes of cloud at midday. Then, as I looked around us from a friend's farm in Little River, I spied clouds gathering, looking fierce. Thunder and lightening came, the clouds surrounded us and then they formed an almighty storm. The storm left us and went towards the city, the image above reflects the size of the hail stones that blanketed the city. The stones damaged the very stadium that I went to see George Michael perform in a few days ago.

On my way into work, 5.5hrs after the storm, there were still residual hail stones on the side of the road. Cars were floating down a street to my left..luckily our 4wd got me to work through the flooded streets in Nth Melbourne.

Amazing, from a 30 degree celcius day.... to this!

9 comments:

karisma said...

Wow! Its amazing how fast mother nature can throw stuff like this at us. I saw some pictures of the flooding yesterday on facebook but nothing like that hail. Glad you were not caught right in it.

BwcaBrownie said...

Weather: The Great Equaliser.

I am addicted to RainRadar.com

Jayne said...

It was a brilliant example of Mother Nature's force.

Cazzie!!! said...

Karisma, Brownie and Jayne, yep, mother nature at her finest aye

Mom said...

Wow! That must have been a wonder to watch.

rosemary said...

Holy cow....that's quite the storm event. We get golf ball hail too....destroys cars and windows if the wind is blowing.

Ginnie said...

That is always such a shock when a natural disaster strikes where you've just been! So glad you were OK and got to work...I know they must have been happy to see you there.

Middle Child said...

Was there with you Cazzie - it was something else wasn't it - and Melbourne was actually humid which I didn't expect

Melly` said...

That is amazing. Thanks for the pics.