'One of the Biggest Storms in 20 Years': And More Are On The Way...

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now with Correos the podcast. Plenty of humidity, plenty of
clouds around, but the one.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thing everyone's talking about is how quickly that storm seemed
to descend upon us, and then how huge it was
and the mass distraction that's gone from. Like I mean,
while I was experiencing storms in Paddington, my partner in
Markula was getting hail.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, that's how big it was. Yeah, and people on
the Gold Coast, So all the way from Gold Coast
to Sunshine Coast, this massive cell just.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
A little left turn. Yeah, I'm gonna get hit everywhere.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Tony, did you Tony orton from Channel seven to with us, Tony,
did you get much of a warning? Mate? Like, were
you like twenty minutes ahead, twenty minutes ahead of the curve?
Did you have an idea in the morning that it
was happening?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Good morning, guys. I've been lining up this day for
about five or six days and trying to really let
people know on seven News as well. Of course, storm
days they go up and down in the meantime, but
this one just looks like we had all of the ingredients,
and sure enough it all played out and the interesting
you mentioned it took a left turn. It was actually
what we'd probably call a left moving supercell. So you're
very technically correct with the terminology.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, I'm actually out for a.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
That you're in.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yes, and so what about what about today? Because I'm
hearing word that we might see a similar storm this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Different So today should be pretty settled inland areas that
have ips, which further west might get a storm this avo,
thinking more so to woman, then we'll probably get a
really good light show later tonight. I'll say, Look, it
shouldn't be that severe that we could get some heavy
rain with these storms that come through later at night, probuefully,
just a good light show and we can maybe enjoy
a beer on the balcony while watching it. Tomorrow and Thursday,

(02:01):
more afternoon storms, the chances of your cells, they shouldn't
be as nasty or as widespread is yesterday, But we'll
just need to keep an eye on those warnings at
eases back Friday and then all potential storms on Saturday.
So there's lots happening at the moment.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Interesting, interesting irony for the ninety thousand homes that don't
have electricity, just watching all the electricity in the sky
wat some of that place.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, and also it's hot too, isn't it Like we're
going for thirties.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, so we're looking at tops about thirty three in Brisbane,
hotter Inland, but it's the knights as well. Steamy minimums
about twenty three and twenty four technically up to severe
heat wave thresholds in the southeast later this week, and
it might not be as interesting or as sexy as storms,
but heat waves are dangerous. They claim more lives than
all other severe weather phenomenon put together. It's generally the
elderly and the sick. So you need to plan to

(02:49):
keep cool, keep the fluids up because heat waves are
dangerous too.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, Now, Tony, was that like the wind? It's back
on that storm. But that wind was that more than
what was expected?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Was that far? Ok?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Heavier?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well I expected it. Yeah, Basically we've seen roosof in
a number of places, probably wind dust getting over one
hundred and twenty five one hundred and fifty k's an
hour in some small area. But for context, the ingredients
we had yesterday were very similar to the gap storm
in two thousand and eight that took roofs off one
hundred homes and the twenty fourteen hailstorm that caused a
billion dollars of damage in Brisbane. So look, the toll

(03:24):
is significant, but hopefully it comes out much less than those.
We just had everything lined up for a really really
huge storm misday.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I saw some videos and photos floating around of like
cricket ball size hail. Is that that's as big as
it gets, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
No, it gets bigger than that. And we were in
giant territory. We saw some stones up to eleven or
twelve centimeters. I actually picked up Yeah, I know it's
dangerous and scary. I actually picked up the equal Australian
record stone of sixteen centimeters from north of Mackay a
few years ago to bring back for researchers that couldn't
get out during COVID. That's a whole other story. But
it does get bigger than what we had yesterday, but

(03:58):
it's still very very scarious.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Grapefruit, how big is that?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Getting to mangoes and the world records actually closer to
a volleyball size that felly in America that.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Can keep it. You feel like the world is ending
if you've got volleyballs of ice falling from the sky.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh I just quick on, are you telling us that
we are in for a decent storm season. I know
we're into it now, but is this going to be
going for the month or so?

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah? Another month and then we've got plenty of we'd
sort of transition into cyclones and rain more so from Christmas,
so the severe weather doesn't stop, but the type changes
a bit. This is probably up there with one of
the biggert storm seasons I've seen in twenty plus years
in Brisbane in Southeast Queensland two thousand and eight was
a huge one back in the day, I reckon, we're
almost pushing above.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
That now, queens one day perfect.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
The next chunks of hail falling from the sky.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Thanks for joining us on Shell seven tonight

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Mate, Thanks guys, Thanks for me