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21 November 2016 – Thunderstorm asthma kills 9 and hospitalises hundreds, high heat and humidity cause thunderstorms to form northwest of the city, due to excessive grass growth in the north and west of Melbourne these storms send pollen into Melbourne and its suburbs raising pollen counts and triggering thousands of severe asthma attacks ...
An intense storm hit Melbourne on the evening of October 28, bringing heavy rain and lightning amid severe weather warnings.This footage, filmed by Leon Sjogren, shows lightning striking in the ...
Hail pelted down over Melbourne as showers and storms rolled across parts of Victoria on Saturday, August 13.This video, recorded by Gavin Craig Harris, shows hail coat the road and street on ...
A tornado refers to a violently rotating column of air that reaches the ground, which can be among the most destructive of all atmospheric phenomena. [1] In Australia, a tornado is also known as a twister or willy-willy. The earliest recorded tornado in Australia was in 1795. The country experiences about 60 tornadoes per year. [2]
SYDNEY, New South Wales – Torrents of rain, with some areas receiving up to 30 inches since last week, have pounded parts of Australia as severe storms continue to unleash widespread flooding.
6 March 2010 brought one of the worst hail storms to ever hit Melbourne. The storm occurred due to the collision of warm humid air moving southwards, and a cold front moving from the south-west. The resulting storms moved from north to south, wreaking havoc across Shepparton in the state's north, uprooting trees and damaging roofs.
The storms developed from a low pressure system to the west of Victoria, generating thunderstorms during the morning of 6 March, [8] which began travelling across the state roughly from northwest to southeast, passing directly through central Melbourne at around 2:40 pm. Multiple storm cells existed, one in Western Victoria and another in Central Victoria and Melbourne, other mostly rain ...
Storm: Melbourne, Victoria: 9: 2016 Nov 21: Nine people died of thunderstorm asthma and approximately 8,500 sought hospital treatment after a storm hit Melbourne. [251] [252] Insurrection: Norfolk Island: 8: 1834 Jan 15: Convict mutiny. Six convicts and two guards killed. 11 convicts were later executed. [253] Civil unrest: Broome, Western ...