It's storm season here again

[Cmar]

Looks like we are in for some fun this afternoon. We are supposed to go out later, and I can now see, hear and feel this coming.

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[AzScorpion]

Stay safe Cam! We just moved from an area that got a lot of severe storms and it was really stressful at times. It wasn't something either of us wanted to continue to live in going into retirement. Weird thing is the weather was never like that and it really changed (for the worse) right about the time we moved there. Here's hoping the weatherman are wrong and it misses you guys.

 

[Cmar]

Luckily it chose to split before it hit us and yes a fair bit of rain and wind and a bit of small hail, but no promised tornadoes or giant hail.

 

[AzScorpion]

Luckily it chose to split before it hit us and yes a fair bit of rain and wind and a bit of small hail, but no promised tornadoes or giant hail.

That's good to hear!

A lot of our storms will do that too. As they come up towards the Ozark mountains the severe storms tend to split up and go north and south of us but there's always that one time. There was a period this spring (from May 16 - May 25) we had 4 tornado warnings and 14 flash flood/ severe thunderstorm warnings. Then a whole bunch more throughout the summer and fall which was enough for us.

 

[Cmar]

Unfortunately others were not so lucky, the SES (State Emergency Service) is out this morning helping to remove fallen trees from power lines, and roads, and help cover roofs with tarps for those who did get cricket ball sized hail and / or tornado like winds.
We don't often get tornadoes over here like yours that form up and then travel long distances but they're not uncommon to form up momentarily during this type of thunder storm activity. Looks like we're in for it again today too. They say this current activity won't clear up until about Wednesday. In a weeks time it will probably kick off again.
This is the pattern here every year from mid October until just before Christmas, when the big storms usually calm down and get replaced by a couple of weeks of clear 35-40 degree heat, then in January the bottom tip of the Asian monsoon will come down from the north and it will just rain until April, and then fine up over Autumn, Winter and, early Spring, until October again.

 

[Cmar]

Some of those who were not so lucky yesterday. Esk is only about 1/2 hours drive from here, in fact I drove through there last Saturday night on my way to a school reunion. Sure glad it wasn't yesterday! It's a beautiful little country town but I would never live there, it's right in the middle of a storm corridor, sandwiched between two mountains.

https://7news.com.au/sunrise/nine-i...-swathes-of-south-east-queensland--c-20547882

 

[Cmar]

And here we go again! I wonder who'll cop it this time. The southeast corner of Queensland has a unique topography which just means these storms are a part of life this time of year. But I wouldn't live anywhere else!

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