⛈️ Brisbane Storm Forecast: Thursday August 14 ⛈️

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
We need to speak to our residents mete your religious
well done? Yes, nice yes, And that of course is
Tony Alden from Channel seven and joins us now today.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Tony, good morning guys. I couldn't actually say merrology when.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
You feel better? Professional tip.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
So we got hail coming, yes we do so much
like yesterday. We're going to call Corey out there. I
was ki perfectly. Not sunshine and rainbows, but sunshine and hailed,
but small hail that looks like it snowed in a
couple of suburbs. We had that the glass out there.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It needs to be a blanket all over Brisbane until
he's happy, Tony, So what about can you sort of
work out what areas yet for this afternoon? Or is
it just somewhere in Brisbane?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Basically a blanket right across the southeast. So it's all
thanks to what we call an upper cold poll. Basically
this big blob of cold air six kilometers all right
into the upper acts here. It's moving overhead, which means
our relatively warmer air at the surface wants to rise
and create those forms or be it outer season, much
like yesterday. I think it'll peak this afternoon, probably get
a vand moving towards the coast late afternoon early evening.

(01:40):
For the most part, small hail. Again. You'll get a
couple of suburbs that look like it's snowing. We might
get one or two cells at a borderline to beer.
But the good thing about small hailstones is they generally
don't damage cars. You might get some pop damage for
those that have crops, but generally it's a mild inconvenience.
You'll get a couple of snowmen in a couple of
those suburbs.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's fun. Is it true that the green clouds are hail?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Generally? Yes, that's my understanding, but they've struggled to prove
it scientifically and find the right fear. So if I
see green, I'm heading for cover as well. In terms
of those finer microphysical processes, they haven't completely nailed it out.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Actually, speaking of getting scientific is hail just rain? Does
it start falling his rain and then get really cold
and turn into ice? Is that what it is? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, basically it is just a small rain drop that
starts the freezing, continues freezing as it bobbles around in
the storm. And like you said, we actually figured out
with one of the record hailstones that was sixteen centimeters
big up in near McKay a couple of years ago,
that it can keep growing as it falls out of
the storm.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Right now, I've always wondered, so when you always say hal,
I feel like it always hails in the same areas,
suburbs and whatnot. Is there a reason for that? Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
There reason. I've actually having shut with a guy that's
done to new research in the past couple of days
and has a whole new bunch of maps that we're
going to do a story on seven years. But yes, topography, mountains,
the Mountain range could have a big impact on exactly
where that hail falls.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Tony, where are you going?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're in the car, I'm coming back from the gym.
There's no rest for the weather man. Guy's been out
to the echo later today. And if you're going, look,
any raine should be fairly short lived, so take a
little poncho and you should be right out there as well.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Those guns aren't going to build themselves, are exactly it's
an on Channel seven. Thanks Tony, Thanks so much, guys,