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In Australia, we call hurricanes cyclones. They also spin the opposite way.
Oddly enough - cyclone is the correct English term for all of them, but some countries have local names - we just happen to call them by their generic name.
@@Craznar interesting.
Raised houses here in Qld are called ‘Queenslanders’.
@@Craznar Cyclone isn't the correct English term. It is a correct English term.
@@bremCZ Correction it is THE correct English term.
Literally :
"cyclone : a system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure, with an anticlockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression."
In the Americas, it's a hurricane. In Asia, it's a typhoon. In Australia, it's a cyclone. Dust devils are willi-willis in Australia. A lot of the coastal storms along coastal Australia, from Queensland to Victoria, are generated by a weather phenomenon called "The East coast low".
If we have a fairly long drought, chances are there will be a massive dust storm somewhere. The Kiwis hate it, because they get all this Australian dust and sand covering their nice white, snowcapped mountains. It's the same with large bushfires, the smoke drifts over the Tasman Sea, and covers their nice, white, snowcapped mountains, again.
That low yesterday started offshore from here ( Gladstone ) ; things were a bit nuts for a while but no damage.
An addition: In some areas like mine (Far-NW NSW), a 'dust devil' here is called a 'whirly wind'. We get a heap of them out here every now and then, but probably only once to twice a year do we see a whirly wind that big as shown in the video.
Dust storms (the two clips with the rolling red cloud bank) are a 'yearly' thing here as well, although we do have a bit of an advance notice to get things ready for a storm. Those things of notice are things like: it's windy; it's dusty and it's feggin dark where the wind is coming from.
@@Wok86 ' Whirlwind ' when I was growing up. I lived in north SA, tended to be dead still before a duststorm, then it would go from 0 to 100 as fast as a porsche.
New Zealand love our fertile soils replenishing their farmlands, that's the only reason for the lush green landscape. lol
@@stevegraham3817 A few days ago a big patch of raincloud slid off the QLD coast right here and quickly started spinning into a low. It got bigger and lower pressure and headed off to give NZ some really shit weather. You're welcome, my Kiwi friends. Lol.
As a Queenslander. I can confirm we get a lot of crazy storms. Lots of these 'extreme' ones you think are hurricanes (cyclones to us), honestly just look like a regular bad summer storm
As a fellow Queenslander, I agree. We get alot of intense storms.
Wouldn’t call it regular at all, definitely on the more extreme side of the storms we receive
Yep in Qld you can bet on at least one each year
In nsw we get tons too, just last year Coffs Harbour experienced 8 hail storms ⛈ which turned our streets into a snowy wonderland (google it online from last year) and 1 close call with a tornado, but yea nsw and qld get battered.
Central QLD. Cyclones are nothing like a thunderstorm. Been in my share of them. The last one here dumped 110 CM of rain in three days.
It's quite common in Australia for large trees to lose large branches in storms, sometimes they'll drop large branches even on a perfectly calm day. The reason for this is our eucalypts have an amazing ability that allows them to deal with excessively saline ground conditions that often happen during drought periods. The tree will push all the excess salts from the water it absorbs into one branch, and when that branch is no longer viable for the tree, it'll break and fall down. In order for this to work, eucalypt tree branches are more brittle than most other types of tree, so really strong winds will often rip off whole branches. It's common enough that a large tree branch that falls from a tree is called a widow-maker in some places.
Damn rocking Knowledge that even must us Aussies don’t know, thanks goer the knowledge, didn’t know eucalyptus trees could do that
dad all ways said never put your tent under the trees so many people have been killed this way
Yep. Always tell our kids not to camp under eucalyptus trees because of widow makers.
When I lived on property I often heard dead trees fall after lots of heavy rain because the dead wood absorbs heaps of water and it becomes too heavy and down she goes.
They also shed during prolonged dry periods, starting with twigs then small branches and ultimately huge limbs.
I lived in Brisbane for four years and yes, I have experienced one of these "sideways" storms. They last only a short time, but boy they pack a punch. Roofs off and trees down, windscreens smashed...all in a days work for a Brizzy Storm.
Working in the CBD I get to regularly see the poor people part way across the bridges when a storm decides to roll through. Everyone decides to scatter or accept that they are going to be drenched. Legit saw someone fall trying ti get out of the wind and water.
I was a member of the SES (State Emergency Services) in Northern New South Wales for a while - we had some really bad storms. I have seen whole sheets of corrugated iron roofing embedded lengthways in the ground so you could only see a silvery zig-zag pattern on the ground where about an inch of metal was still sticking out. I saw a TV antenna shot through a tree like a spear. I was in the floodboat rescue crew and saw a 2 storey Maccas flooded to the point that the water was halfway up the 2nd storey - there were ducks inside eating all the floating burger buns. Helped out with some hailstorm damage where the average size hail stone was around a tennisball size. Since moving to Tasmania I have seen mini tornados on Mount Wellington, a lightning storm with green, blue, pink and yellow lightning, and so much more. It gets wild.
Thankyou for including the bit about the ducks - made my day 😍😂💖
When you have a hot day and see the clouds come over and they are green - that's usually when the hail hits... We usually get the warning from the Kookaburras down the street. When they go bananas, we get rain within 48 hours... You mightn't hear them for months, but when they go bonkers - the rains are coming...
...Marge
Yeah, we have our fair share of storms here in Brisbane. Most of us love them…up to the point where they start damaging things. Also the elevated house you spoke of… that particular one was obviously a half finished restoration but the classic “Queenslander” type house is readily raised to accommodate an extra living space downstairs. It’s also fairly common to saw them in half (if needed) put them on the back of a truck and move them. One disappeared from the block two doors down from me about three weeks ago. There is actually a second hand house yard just north of Brisbane just like a second hand car yard.
No those Queenslander houses are typically already raised from the get go for ventilation for cooler temperatures and flood damage prevention. They then get lifted more more to make a two story house which is why the floods do more damage these days as most have been renovated this way
Do you know what that qldr house car yard is i ses it when i drive into the city from out west but never see any signs or any way to contact them to actually purchase any of the qldrs. And the modern qldrs are often a joke with quality of build. Od rather deal with the possible lead paint of an old qldr than the modern ones made of paper.
@@EmmaAppleBerry There is two at Burpengary on the highway one is called David Mackay & Sons on the northbound side and the other is Dave Wright Removals on the southbound side. I drive past them nearly everyday for work and I pick which one I’d buy and put on a nice big block of land… aah one day my dream will become a reality 😉
@@lonnie224 David Wright removed a house at Enoggera this week and Mackay removed another also at Enoggera a few weeks ago......I asked the Mackay truck driver...doing anymore tv shows... Nah...I don't get involved in that shit!
@@98hamish I don’t understand the “No” opening in your comment…maybe not my best wording but that house in the video was clearly half way thru a raising type reno. Totally agree that it’s a not a great idea to raise and build in underneath a qlder in a flood zone.
The dust storm in 2009 could be seen from space. Some cities and towns were blacked out. Bloody wild watching that blow in.
yeah, i was in newcastle during the dust storm of 09, woke up one morning to an apocolyptic scene of red sky, and everything coated in red dust. Back then i was a car detailer for a huge dealership. was a very tough week trying to keep all the yard cars clean.
That's when people liked wearing a mask! 😉
Yep woke up in Sydney thinking we'd been transported to Mars
I was in the hospital and you couldn't see out the windows.
Happened in my home town Broken Hill.
The thing about severe storm in the tropical areas of Australia is that they are quite common. What most consider a terrifying storm is just a really hot, steamy day finally cooling off! And yes Brisbane does get a lot of severe storms. At least one or two big bangers a year, some seasons several.
East coast Australian storms have a lot of vertical lift (do to the great dividing range) causing massively tall storms that have vertical rotation causing giant hail.
This is different to the US storms which develop on the plains have have huge horizontal circulation leading to tornados.
I'm from Brisbane - and yeah, those sort of storms are common in summer.
Canberra hailstorm for example. Wrote off 30,000 vehicles.
We get tornadoes too. Not quite F4-F5 like the US can get ( yet), but certainly enough to do damage.
@@virginiaviola5097 Same as the US also gets hail :)
The Mid North Coast of NSW gets a very powerful tornado (F3-F5) every 10-15 years. They aren't as big or long lasting as the tornado alley ones and they happen mainly in bushland. When I was a kid, there was one that crossed the Pacific Highway between Kew and Port Macquarie. There was an 80-100m wide path through the forest where every tree toppled and torn apart. The bottom of a big rolling storm pushes into a valley and as the storm crosses the ridge line, the storm turns sideways and forms a tornado.
Most of those storms smash the Logan and Gold Coast region. The geography creates our own "tornado alley" of a sort with those areas prone to massive wind, rainfall and hail. Hail stones of 5+ inches across are not that uncommon in that region.
I remember many of those Brisbane storms. I was born there. In the 80's there was a storm and the hail was shown on the evening news. If it was not recorded no one would believe what fell that afternoon. The hail stones were the size of house bricks. Window glass ran out across the country as people were trying to repair their houses as well as the glass office towers in the city. The damage was unbelievable. It took months and for some more than a year to replace broken windows, walls, tiled roofs. Cars were destroyed and car sales yards had massive write offs. I moved to Toowoomba in 1998 and I was only here a short time before I experienced the rarest form of hail - Arrow Head. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would not believe it to be true. Hail, only 1 cm thick but triangular shaped like an arrow head. I've seen everything from sleet to brick sized hail in my lifetime. Queensland storms are the scariest things ever. And Toowoomba which sits 668m above sea level on a mountain range is weird. We're so high when storms come over the clouds don't raise up with the terrain. So I get to sit out many storms from the inside of them. The noise is deafening and you can actually hear the lightning as it cuts through the air. Freaky stuff. Thanks for your vids I watch every one. Love 'em. Cheers.
Check out Cyclone Tracey that tore Darwin to pieces on Christmas day 1974 killing 71 people. I still remember the iconic photo of a screaming toddler holding his teddy bear in the middle of absolutely destruction
Didn't some people get injured or killed because they didn't know not to venture out in the eye?
We get cyclones Ian, not hurricanes. We can have HUGE dust storms that start in Western Australia and travel right across to the east coast and sometimes even continue over to New Zealand. Usually before a hail storm arrives the sky and clouds will turn and shade of green, the darker the green the more ice is forming the worse the storms going to be. Queensland gets hit by almost all the cyclones because cyclones form in the tropics normally only. If you get a map of Australia and draw a horizontal line from Brisbane right across to Western Australia, pretty much everything on the coast above that line WILL get clobbered by cyclones at sometime every year. Far north Queensland, they measure their rain in meters of rain 3-6 mts of rain every year. Seeya Rob
Yes, most people have answered your questions: anywhere in Australia can get massive storms, both in winter and summer and tropical and non tropical - but, yes Brissie, seems to get the most intense. Water spouts are relatively common on Australias coastline .
Tornadoes not common, BUT seem to be getting more common: hence Armidale, Dubbo, Perth, Bathurst, Rutherglen and Mulwala
Occasionally, a microburst in the middle of the day in good weather can appear, and travel across an inland lake: Lake Hume, and instantly form a water spout, and then dissipate once it reaches shore again.
Checkout the video on CZcams of the x2 young tradies in their Ute filming a twister near Rutherglen, Murray River, Yarrawonga near 2012 ?
Lots of swearing, but very funny.
For all the different reasons, you like Australian video clips, this has it all 😂
The house at 5:19 looks like it's in the process of being re-stumped either after being relocated or raised so it can be built in underneath , minimum 8' /2400mm high to be used as a dwelling downstairs .
Houses on short stumps are called lowset , tall stumps are called highset . Highset Queenslanders were built for air circulation in the warmer climate of Qld and were generally timber framed and weatherboard clad .
Interesting fact: They were also built higher for the flood seasons
@@lonnie224 And to avoid having to properly level the land for a foundation- making it quicker and cheaper to put up for the time period. The Queenslander-style was a perfect fix for a number of significant problems facing home-builders in those days.
6:25 During the flooding around my area there was snakes swimming in the water. In one case rescuers had left their boat to save someone and when they got back snakes had jumped in for safety.
And yes I also heard about spiders getting washed away in the waters aswell.
My parents and I were sat on an island off PNG years ago and on the way home we had sea snakes (Bandi Bandi) chasing us and trying to get up on the boat! When we headed back past the islands we realized a wave had hit all of them while we were eating lunch! 🤨
Lot of those videos were from Brisbane. We had a massive storm in 2014 which lasted about 15 minutes and caused $1bn damage. Yes I am from Brisbane and we get some nasty storms. The last was in 2020. It hit around Redcliffe and again we had baseball sized hail. Some of my friends are still waiting for their colorbond roof to be replaced today 2 years later. There are photos and satellite images of endless roofs with holes everywhere, the houses with tiled roofs faired worse. The hail went straight through the iron roof. Being sub tropical the humid air mixing with the cold southern air creates perfect conditions for severe storms. Yes your right most of these videos are in Queensland and captured the November 2014 storm and November 2020.
Is that the one that basically blew away The Gap (in 2014)?
@@JB-vd8bi Na mate that was in 2008.
@@JB-vd8bi czcams.com/video/skrnDGl1LxQ/video.html
The November 2014 storm was on the 27th, lots of videos on youtube about it.
And October 2020 (Halloween) were the supercells down south
3:04 -3:29ish Water Spouts are pretty common all over the Pacific not just Australia. When tropical storm fronts build enough energy to pick up the water but not enough to maintain the energy when they hit any type of land.
A workmate of mine was a 90 foot fishing boat crewman off Tasmania and says that it's par for the course out on the open ocean depending on the season. Squalls and spouts hit land and dissipate relatively quickly because the air pressure breaks up due to obstacles such as buildings and trees.
Those things in the desert are just the same as what you would call Dust Devils, just bigger and made up of dust the consistency of talcum powder that floats along and not a real danger because the wind speed isn't that high.
the footage straight after the "spider" shudder.. was from a storm in Brisbane- that spot was Morooka shopping precinct. i was a few kilometers away from that and remember that storm well. it kicked the crap out of where i was living.
I’m currently hiding inside from a storm as I’m watching this! My lawn is now gone it’s just a lake outside 🇦🇺
Stay safe. Hoping for ya.
@@Homeheart1
Sunshine Coast went through this Thursday and Friday. Stay safe
Batten down the hatches. Good luck to all of you. Thinking of you
@@chrischapman1522 Hang in there, because we are going to get through this together.
Aww man, I miss tropical storms!! I live in Broken Hill, the capital of the outback. I moved here from QLD and miss the exhilaration of a good thunder storm!
Probably didn't miss the floods though, right?
@@jessbellis9510 we were there for the floods at the beginning of the year, but it didn’t flood where we were. The only impact it had on us was food trucks not getting through gympie, which was a minor inconvenience compared to the devastation some people experienced.
Your definitely right about Queensland. I lived in Brisy from Birth until I was 13, the one thing I don't miss those Sudden Violent Summer Storms. I remember when I was Little when the roof of one block of Flats ( Apartment Building) tore off and landed on another won. A couple of blocks away, My B.F.F. live half a block away. This great big Pink Stuffed Dog 🐕 landed in here yard, they were honest they found the owner and gave it back. A few years later my Primary (Elementary) School was hit. We all huddled under the teachers desk as part of the roof was torn off. You've heard of Fire Sales, remember a News Story about a Car Dealership having a Storm Sale because the hail had destroyed some of the Cars Bodywork. We moved to The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland which is up a Mountain Range behind Cairns. We don't call them Hurricanes their Cyclones, but they have to be huge to effect us. But if I wind up moving to Innisfail where My Potential Boyfriend has his small I.T. business I'll have to take my cue from him. I remember once when My Brother-in-law's Pregnant Neice and her family's home lost it's roof in that town. It was on the National News. She was Heavily Pregnant with her 3rd baby and they'd just set up the baby's room when it happened. Bon Jovi is my all time favourite ban, I once had the chance to attend one of their Concerts. But I wouldn't go due to their instance of playing in Open-air Venues, during Summer in Brisy.
Over the last couple of years when South Australia has had some weird weather events, we have actually had the odd tornado, and a I am down on the beach area, I even see the odd water spout
That I do remember, we lost our electricity for a few days. A tornado just got the edge of our town in the mid north of South Australia.
remember that incident very well
Raised houses are called Queenslanders. They were raised up to hopefully stop flooding and also in the heat it helps with air flow to cool it down
Back in the late 90's, early 2000's we had a series of tornadoes in the south west of western Australia. One even ripped a church of its foundations and dropped it back down 4 ft away. One of the others destroyed a high school in Rockingham.
One hit morley WA 2012 has well it tore through the area and caused alot of damage including a blockbuster shop
I remember the one that hit Bunbury where the church lifted off the foundations, had to drive to work and it was unbelievable to see the damage. Then a while later one went through Australind just out of Bunbury causing a lot of damage. The hail storm in Perth damaged a lot of cars too.
@@aussiegirl1166 The funniest thing about the one that hit the Bunbury CBD is it was the Catholic Church that got messed up, and the Anglican one the next hill over was almost unscathed. Im not religious at all, but you'd really have to wonder about what message God was trying to send... the covenant next door to the church was closed even tho mostly unharmed, and made for a really cool bit of urban exploration.
Elevated house is called a Queenslander house because there usually built in Queensland because of flooding
Here in Perth we had The Great Hail Storm of 2010 - it even smashed the historic stained glass windows in UWA's Winthrop Hall. A girl I knew was doing her med degree and her car was in the UWA carpark - with ALL of her textbooks. Literally $4000 down the drain.
On the plus side, for the next couple years there were SO MANY cheap second hand cars due to hail damage. Great for first cars.
Your comparison to Forida and Queensland is pretty spot on actually. Hilariously enough it's our most conservative state with the rural areas being a lot like Florida politically.
I remember that. I think UWA also lost all their ducklings and one of the peacocks 🦚? My car did well with only two small hail dents.
That storm tore a hole in my roof had a waterfall in my kitchen
Yep it's common in Queensland for houses to be up on stilts. It protects you in floodprone areas but also it enable airflow beneath the house which cools the house down in summer.
I'm in Brisbane and wild summer storms are pretty common especially in a La Nina year. I've seen hail the size of a baseball before. It goes in fairly narrow bands and doesn't last long but are incredibly destructive. For reference, Brisbane is the same latitude south as roughly Orlando is north. The further north you go in Queensland, the closer you get to the equator and into real tropical weather. Cyclones are a yearly event with often multiple cyclones making landfall each year. Though this year has been quiet with an El Nino pattern keeping moist air away. Check out Cyclone Tracy footage from 1974 from Darwin or Cyclone Yasi from Queensland.
The Brisbane River is full of bull sharks too. I wouldn't be standing in it flooded..
The good old Pasha Bulker storm of 2007, a bulk carrier ran aground on a beach during an east coast low. Great tourist attraction for about a month. But Brisbane always seems to get hit really hard with massive thunder storms during summer.
In Brisbane , Car dealerships quite often have "Hail Sales" where they have to severely discount their hail damaged vehicles .
In the southern hemisphere , Hurricanes are called Cyclones . They are exactly the same type of storm but have an opposite rotation , due to the coriolis effect .
The "elevated house" is common in Queensland . We call them "highsets" the elevated aspect serves two purposes , it protects from flooding (sort of) and helps with air circulation and cool breezes in the very humid summers .
In Queensland we expect , and experience these type of storms every year . We would be very surprised if we didn't get them . You are correct in you analogy of Qld. being similar to Florida.
For uni, i did an assignment about east coast lows (extratropical cyclones) that smashed Northern Sydney to Newcastle in 2007. Problem was that it wasn't one, but 5 formed in succession over one month period...bye bye beaches.
And hello Pasha Bulka 🚢
They are Cyclones. Mostly in the top end of Aus. My son is in Cairns and his kids learned how to tape windows when they were small. Now they have a safe room. We are on the Coast about a third the way up QLD and where the Cyclones start. Our last one Cyclone Debbie and we face the beach. It didn’t touch the homes on the beach but the Streets behind us got clobbered.
It is amazing to watch storms come in from the ocean. I remember the Ford Factory near Melbourne just finished a run of their current small car. There were thousands of them out in the parking lot waiting to go to dealers. We had one of our huge hail storms and it got every single new car. They sold them off for way under cost. It was come and pick one and make an offer.
Brisbane gets lots of these hail storms and rain bombs because it sits almost perfectly between a tropical and temperate areas so it gets mix of hot winds and cold winds creating supper cells. Sydney gets lots of server thunder storms, where as Melbourne gets these storms called Thunder Asthma and Servere Cold Fronts (where the temp will drop 10-15c in less then 1hr and has winds over 100km/h)
I spent most of my life in Queensland and my earliest memory of experiencing hail was when I was around 4 years old. I still remember these were about tennis ball sized and Screaming as the sound was deafening. I now live in Tasmania and December last year my wife, her twin sister and I were driving to Hobart ( Tassie's capital ) and there was a storm sending light hail. We pulled over just to play it safe. Once it eased, we continued and then a bolt of lightning hit the ground just ahead and instantly a loud clap of thunder followed and sparks came from power lines. I tell you mate, it was one of those change your underwear moments for sure. Cheers mate.
Yes they are very common in Queensland from the Gold Coast up to Cairns, always the upper east coast of Australia, usually the massive storms are from being close to the cyclones. We’ve been lucky here on the Gold Coast where we only get the massive storms and massive hail, somehow we always dodge the cyclones and get the tail end of them, can’t say the same for Cairns. They always get smashed from Cyclones
Hahaah cairns always misses the cyclones, has a weird wind pattern blocking it and mountains, townsville or north of cairns gets hit alot, the last 5 cyclones all completely missed, even though all 5 were predicted to hit, but most hail storm occurrences happen from mackay down to south nsw, cairns next to never gets hail due to sheer heat, very rare for cairns.
@@autizgiz2756 oh ok, I just usually hear on the news that cyclones are always headed towards Cairns and close by, so it’s a bit higher up north that gets hit, I was thought cairns was getting hammered by what you hear on the news lol
Originated in the mid 19 century, the Queenslander houses were initially and specifically designed for a sub-tropical climate. They were mostly built of timber and elevated above-ground to get proper ventilation
Hurricane = Tropical Cyclone or Cyclone. At 5:54 the guy even says "this is a cyclone".
Brisbanite here, summer is our storm season usually lasts through from December to March. When a cyclone hits the coast up north we usually get the tail end of it. Bringing lots of rain and sometimes big storms with it. But then in summer we get a lot of humidity and when it builds and builds for days on end we end up getting a huge storm sweep in from the west, green and black skies and hail. The greener the sky the worse the hail is going to be. But summers here are the best when it’s hot and sunny during the day and in the late afternoon evening you will get a storm come over and will last about 15 mins and it cools everything down for the night. Aahh Queensland I love it 😎
05:37 Many homes - particularly in sub-tropical flood prone areas - are built on 'Stilts'
obviously to protect them from rising water levels during floods.
One will find many home in and around the QUEENSLAND Capital of Brisbane - houses
that were built on stilts.
Regular Brisbane / SE QLD storms, lol, we usually get a dozen to 20 or so of them each Summer. Not all are massive hail and flying trampolines, a good handful will be horizontal rain, but mainly it's the lightning show we love around here.
The main factor start with a very humid day, and as the sun crosses the mountain Range at Toowoomba - about 200km inland - the cold sea breezes get sucked in pushing the humid air up to the top of the range where it starts rolling and returning back to the coast. Generally they roll over Brissie between 4-6pm, not always, but you can expect to show the tourists at least a couple of these storms in late January and any time in February.
2018 on the Sunshine Coast was an epic hail storm. Hail was coming through walls. Check out the inland tsunami that happened with the 2011 floods in Queensland. I still can't believe that actually happened.
Thankyou for your respect for Australia....it truly is an amazing place
Hi Ian, thanks for the video. In 1996 I moved from Armidale to Singleton in NSW. Both towns were hit with bad hail storms which caused a lot of damage. Practically every roof in both towns were eventually replaced. Tile rooves fared the worst. My sister had a XJ6 Jaguar at the time. Every panel including the twin mufflers were dented. Not even a crack in any window, mirror or lights. Earlier this year there were extreme floods in Lismore (NE NSW) and SE Queensland. Also our local town, Armidale was hit with a tornado October last year. Small by American standards but there are still repairs going on at the university (University of New England) today. Cyclones are worst in the north of Australia, especially northern Queensland and the Northern Territory. On Christmas Eve in 1974, Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory was pretty much destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
Armidale NSW has a population of 25,000. Video of tornado (at night so not great): czcams.com/video/6LyMlEk2HzY/video.html
Ian, the houses on stilts are actually called "Queenslander Homes." The theory goes that the wind can go under without collapsing. Love your stuff, mate, can't wait for the fam to visit Perth (best kept secret ever!)
And they keep your feet dry if it floods and allow cool breezes and solar management with verandas and shades. They are the perfect tropical home design.
Great in areas that flood a lot as well.
Called hurricanes when they develop over the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, these rotating storms are known as cyclones when they form over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, and typhoons when they develop in the Northwest Pacific.
It’s great fun when huge hail takes out the 3 skylights in your roof and you have hail that size bouncing around inside the house
I grew up quite close to a Sydney suburban beach, Maroubra bay, in 1974 There was a storm to end all storm's. As the storm was building. "We, a group of seven grommet's" got out of the mounting surf. too big for us. The storm broke while we stood outside the surf club. A local lad "Alan Perry" was standing near us watching the mental storm surge , standing in rubber thong's soaking wet from his shower with his wet suit in his hand's. A loud peel of thunder overhead and a flash of light. a bolt of lightning passed through both of his ankle's. Wide eyed, with steam rising off him, he was uninjured except for the four black dot's, one on each side of each of his ankle's. The storm smashed almost all of the suburb and flooded all of the shops. The water was shin deep on Marine parade with a lot of dead fish and sea weed everywhere.
I recognise that clip from Brisbane. That storm was crazy. All the sirens were all the buildings / apartments going off from rising flood water from basements and from the road. It was insanity and alarms were going off all day and night. It was surreal.
We had a storm like that in Sydney quite a few years ago now and those size hail stones did a lot of damage to peoples roofs as well I was fortunate to only have about 5 roof tiles that broke and some water damagee on my roof. We had to turn the power off though when water started comming out of the light fixtures and it took a few weeks to get fixed it was amazing to watch though
Where I live in Australia, we had one of the biggest hail storms record, my whole suburb (Springfield) was wiped out and the biggest hail stone I found in my yard was 14cm/5.512 inches.
Looked like a war zone
Worst hail in Australia was early last century in NSW it put hundreds of people in hospital and killed a lot too. Was worse back then not now
the dust storms started near alice springs in the centre and made its way to the east coast.
We had a winter tornado go over my house 2 days ago here in Perth. The hail wasn't even hitting the ground because the wind had it going horizontal to the ground. A 100ft tall gum tree was nearly blown flat in my neighbour's yard and ended up losing a huge branch. I've been in cyclones up north where recorded winds were at 150km/h and the wind in the tornado was close to that (I would estimate 130-140km/h)
I originally from country NSW & was always told to be very careful during windy days or storms as the eucalyptus or gum trees have large branches that fall & cause serious damage - so much so they are called "Widow Makers"! I currently live in Perth & we get some two or three crazy storms a year. One I recall caused so much damage to all the brand new cars outside dealerships they all SLASHED the prices calling it the "Hail Sale" as they all had damage to every panel of each car. I had a friend pick up a new car at less than half price & had her boyfriend, a panel beater, fix all the damage for free. So as they say every cloud has a silver lining?? But as you must have learnt by now that we never do anything here half-assed!
We had a wild hail storm following a heat wave and our family had 5 out of 6 of our cars badly damaged by hail in Melbourne five or six years ago. In 2021 there was a storm in the Yarra Ranges that is still in recovery mode today. Hundreds of massive trees were uprooted across homes and roads. There as a loss of electricity on the mountains and surrounding areas for months. We are not up in the Ranges, but close to the base and were lucky and regained our power after four days.
I grew up in Sydney, but moved to the Mountains behind Sydney 20 yrs ago. When I see pictures if Sydney I'm aware how much I love it.
The worst cyclone damage wise i remember as a kid, was cyclone Tracey, Christmas Eve 1974. It was just heartbreaking, it almost wiped Darwin away. The images still live in my memory and im in my late 50s now. North Western Australia and North Queensland get the worst of the cyclonic weather. WA, SA, NSW and Vic have more drought and bush fires
East coast, Melbourne to Cairns, all get these storms and alot of the same area gets dust storms too.
In one storm in Sydney, NSW, I was stuck in traffic just before an intersection, that was a gully between three small hills with roads feeding into it. The water had covered the intersection and was rapidly rising. No way forward or backward. I had to stand on the brake to stop the car moving sideways into the car in the next lane. A tree fell between the front of my car and the back of the car in front, just missing us both with the branches falling on the opposite lanes, which were thankfully empty. I called my family to say goodbye. After 4 hours we were rescued, the water having stopped at the level of the wheel rims of the cars at the front of the line.
Large limbs on trees especially gumtrees we call widow makers..these come down in a storm you don't want to be under it . Great reaction mate👍
Quite a few years ago now, we had a huge hail storm across Perth, and a huge number of brand new cars were all badly damaged in the car sales yards, so were auctioned off extra extra cheap. Still see one every now n then in the country areas. Golf ball size dents on the bonnet, roof and boot lol....Back in the early 70s, my sister, Dad and myself were heading to WA far north Derby, way before we had sealed roads. We had two other vehicles we'd met along the way who were following, we saw a massive sand storm coming from the north heading straight for us, Dad knew what to do (Turn the vehicle facing away from the dust, stuff anything in the exhaust pipe, close windows and hang on. The 2 vehicles behind didn't follow our lead, stayed where they were facing into the storm - they sat on the side of the road for 3 days before we could get help sent to them. The old engines didn't like the thick red dust, and they just seized up lol
Lots of elevated houses in Queensland. We had a severe hail storm in Perth several years ago and it did lots of damage. Lots of cars totaled, and lots of new ones sold off at way way below full price. I have a mate who is an insurance adjuster and they were still dealing with claims 3 years after the event due to backlog of handling it all. Your hurricanes are called cyclones here in Oz and they spin opposite direction as we are below equator. We call the dust devils willy-willy's. Queensland sells itself on its great weather, and they do have some on occasion, but as you can see, they get a fair bit of crap weather as well.
Live in the area that was hit by the Dandenong ranges wind storm last year in Victoria. Almost a 3rd of trees were all derooted and we are talking BIG fricken trees. People are still waiting to rebuild in some parts even now.
That weather wasn't natural that was some kind of tech being used I assure you
my understanding is america gets hurricanes, japan and that sort of area gets typhoons and everywhere else gets cyclones.
The worst storms usually happen in nsw, and south qld, because of the cold snowy mountains in very southern nsw/vic and the heat of northern qld fusing together, we had 6 tornado just last year, being more northern nsw and south qld. We also call hurricanes, “cyclones”, because ours spin in the opposite direction of americas. Fun fact, if a hurricane/cyclone/typhoon tried to cross the equator… it would literally just die out, because convections of water or water vapour don’t spins when going down at all!
Yes, our flooding is not just water everywhere but snakes, insects and mass pollution, mould everywhere, and salt invading the previously clean irrigated soil! The cleaning up takes months and it can take years for the farm land to recover! I remember one hailstorm in Sydney that destroyed every car that was not garaged - car yards (dealers) were really badly affected! 😥😩
Houses on high stilts are very common in the tropical places. Here up most of the Queensland coast and upper Northern Territory type areas. Excellent air circulation assists with living in hot humid climates. Also not bad when flood water levels ruse. If you get over 1 meter, 1000 mm , rain in one big downpour you do not even need to be on a river flood plane, just on lower ground than a large land area and you have feet deep water rushing past the house enough to wash away cars.
Talking lots of rain, the Saturday news paper 23rd July, had an article in an enclosed mini magazine, dealing with one of Australia's swimming champions, that got Gold medals over past years dealing with their farm life in North NSW, on a Maccadamia farm. They are in one of the districts that has had two major floods this year and several high water times. Apparently the area normal annual rain comes to around 1300mm, this year so far total is 3000 mm. So that is 3 meters, abit over 36 inches rain fall.
At one of the floods they received over 1200 mm rain overnight. That run off into the local streams and rivers was why much of LISMORE town was submerged, with major evacuation required.
Yes there are tropical places with very high rain falls, even Kauai Island of the Hawaii chain from memory of my short holiday has annual rain of over 460 inches. But that rain on Lismore is a significant part in one night of not quite 10% of that annual amount, and is very nearly the normal average annual rain for the Lismore district.
I personally in central Queensland had 4 in rain in 20 minutes while in the sapphire diggings region of staying in a Motel for New Years night in Emerald, nearest moderate town, some 500km inland from Rockhampton . In the morning the highway out of town was for 20km under water by between a few inches and lower sections up to near 2ft deep. Our 4WD handled the trip well, but needing later to wait 6 hrs, effectively all day, for a creek to reduce to get back to the gem diggings.
Yes tropical storms get spectacular lightening, and heavy rain, occasionally hail too.
Here the Hurricans are called Cyclones and being southern hemisphere rotate opposite to those in northern hemisphere.
6:55 Yes Florida and Queensland is the most similar you can get. Tropical hot humid area prone to cyclones or hurricanes and they even both have crocodiles.
The houses on stilts that are elevated are usually built in flood zones probably similar to the reason Florida does it.
Fun fact nsw is typically more humid than qld 💀💀💀 we be usually sitting at 88-99% humidity when most qld sits at 73-95%, speaking where people typically live
In australia we get heaps of hectic storms!
We used to have a tv ad in the 90s general storm warning mentioning rain huge winds lightning huge hail stones and even raining golf balls
i love storms and we call hurricanes tropical cyclones basically the same thing, we got big hail stones here, its basically a lot of small stones that have all stuck together
Never heard them called sandstorms here as they are dust storms the red iron dust otherwise known as bulldust. Theyre extremely frequent in the outback. Occasionally they make it to cities/coast but its rare.
I can only remember the 2009 dust storm
Yup my home town is bad for the red dust storms half the time it sucks because it goes through ur house and everything needs a clean.
These storms remind me of the one I was in when I lived in Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland (FNQ). We lived at the base of Thornton Peak and a storm cloud was stuck on the top of it. Every crack of thunder was like a tree exploding. Shut ya eyes and hide under the blankets you'd still get blinded by the lightning. You could feel the charge in the air.
Cyclone Tracy in 1974 wiped out Darwin the capital of the Northern Territory on Christmas day, to the point where people had to be evacuated. It flattened whole neighborhoods. My husband and his family rode it out at Saint Mary's Cathedral. They came out to their car wrapped in metal roofing just like a Christmas present, when they unwrapped it it only had some scratches on it. The death toll was higher then reported.
I live in Melbourne.
On Christmas Day in 2009 the hail was so large it put dozens of dents in my car. That’s when I heard of the trade “Paintless Dent Repair.
Three or four years ago, once again, hail large enough to smash through polycarbonate roofing interspersed through steel decking for light.
0.51 There was hail not long ago that were not only giant (well large) but also jaggered. 16cm at Mackay. They were like a weapon.
They’re called cyclone’s and happen mostly in the northern part of the country, on the odd occasion the town I live in has a tornado form, but in the past it’s only taken a few roofs off buildings and that’s it. And the year I was born, 1983, Melbourne was hit by a big dust storms before the Ash Wednesday bushfires in February of 1983.
I was out learning to drive when a rain and dust storm combined into a mud storm that was scary.
There was an immense dust storm in February 1983 as a result of what had been, up to then, Australia's worst drought. Our Ash Wednesday bushfires happened only 8 days later.
The Feb 1983 dust storm began in the Mallee area of the State of Victoria, the temperatures were in the mid 40's C and the 'dust' was actually thousands of tonnes of topsoil from the farming districts.
As it travelled across to the east it reached heights of 3,500 metres at times, and over 300 metres when it reached Melbourne CBD. There were estimates of between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of soil in the storm and over 1,000 tonnes of it were dumped over the city itself. The winds ripped trees from the ground all over the state.
There are some incredible photos online and worth searching out. I dare say there'd be a video somewhere on YT as well.
I was working in the city at the time and it was terrifying.
Yep, I was in a tower building on St Kilda Road watching that one roll in over the bay - truly a scary sight!
A friend of mine on the Gold Coast "Kirt" saw a water spout off shore. He jumped on his jet ski and went out and rode through it. He told me he could feel the suction 😆😆😆 A TV crew who was filming it from the shore saw him, and interviewed him, and it made it on the nightly news. Funny as 😆😆😆
5:00 is in Rockhampton during a cyclone. That is the carpark under the largest shopping centre. It was filmed by a professional storm chaser.
i live in West Australia .I used to spend a fair bit of time out bush .Some of the bush is relatively shrubby with trees here and there.But other areas can be quite think with gumtrees .This day i was out miles from from the highway bush bashing along some old dead beat tracks ..i came across a large area where all the trees in a single line were down ,snapped like twigs.Most of them had a diameter of around 10-12 inches .The width of the damage was around 20 metres but it stretched for at least 1.5 kms .And i couldnt work it out why it was like this ,no machinery had done this except as i walked along it it went from being relatively straight damage then it veered into a zig zag and then straight again..It was the damage of a tornado like mini storm .At the end it just dissipated there was no more damage..If anyone had been there you would have been dead
Iin Queensland we call the elevated houses "old Queenslander houses" they were built for a few reasons a couple being that the wind travels through underneath themand keeps them cool in the summer and another one is to help when it floods the house CAN be pretty safe and out of the water (depending on the water levels).
I've lost 3 cars written off to hailstorms, come summer I am a weather radar watcher, not losing another car if I can help it. My last one was destroyed by softball sized hail about 7 years ago in Redcliffe
i remember working across the road from BMW Sydney at rushcutters bay in the early 2000's when we coped a huge hail storm, Every car in the yard was a write-off.
In South Aus people are still waiting for cars to be repaired from hail months ago, most are write offs because every panel is damaged
Sydney cops more than its share too. I'll never forget the hail storm from when I was a teen with literal baseball size hail, it wiped out all the car dealerships along Parramatta Rd, you could pick up some dirt cheap brand new golf balls, I mean cars lol.
I remember those hailstorms. It caused an inordinate amount of damage, and a huge boost to the economy as everything got replaced lmao. You could pick up a hail damaged car for like 100 bucks.
I was also working on a site when a dust storm rolled through it was crazy, but kinda fun, and then it got wiped out by an actual storm which passed in maybe 20 minutes to a beautiful day. it be crazy out here.
florida and qld are a good comparison, although our seasons are different, they do get that big tropic storms. qld crosses the tropic of capricorn, which is the southern edge of the tropical zone, while florida cross the tropic of cancer i believe or the top edge. You see similar stuff on the west coast, and the northern regions.
Melbourne had 2 massive hail storms - March 2010, and Christmas Day 2011. Both wound up with massive damage bands in various suburbs, and several months of calls to the emergency services.
Early last century in NSW hail killed people and put hundreds in hospital
There was a nasty hail storm on Christmas Day in Melbourne a few years back.
We had hail damage to our Commodore which was thankfully covered by insurance.
I remember this well because we had just arrived at my in laws and putting the food out when we got a call that a family members car was stuck in a flash flood on the way to us and emergency services had come to their aid.
The elevated houses are called Queenslander style houses they are cool in summer and help protect against flooding.
We have cyclones in Australia. On Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy a Category4+ hit Darwin; the devastation from Tracy was more severe than the Bombing of Darwin by the Japanese during WW2. It resulted in the largest peacetime relief operation, up to that time.
We had a severe hail storm in Perth about 10yrs ago, that afterwards, you could get really good deals on new and used cars all around the city. It destroyed the body's of thousands of cars in car yards.
Cyclones are common in QLD, NT and northern WA. Sydney has bigger hail stones than those shown. We lose power for days every time there is a major storm in Melbourne due to down trees.
Darwin has the most storms. They're called cyclones here. Check out cyclone Tracey 1974..Christmas eve
These are typical Queensland summer storms. High winds, great lightning light shows, hail. I live in Brisbane and love watching them
Edit: Queensland has "storm season" and we have these kinds of storms throughout the entire summer
We often get caught in dust storms travelling back to Broken Hill to visit family, pretty commonplace out there, especially when it's really dry.
My Mum and her aunt were the only two casualties from a tornado that hit in northern NSW in 1948.
We have some pretty unique weather at times!!
Here in Wollongong at the beginning of this month we had nearly 20 inches of rain in 4 days, two thirds of it in the first two days. There were multiple water spouts at the same time just off the coast, a mini tornado went through one suburb and some of the beaches ended up covered knee deep in sea foam. There were landslides and flooding and trees down , the rail line between here and Sydney had to be closed and some roads will be closed for weeks, if not months, after being partially washed away. All in just a handful of days.
I moved out of Wollongong 12 years ago and the only thing I miss is the crazy storms.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 I moved here Xmas 2020, the storms have been spectacular….the low clouds and fog on the escarpment, the winds strong enough to blow a dog off its chain, the water spouts, the landslides (bits of Macquarie Pass keep sliding down the mountain) and the lashing rain. Very different to Perth where I lived before.
@@miniveedub I can't believe Macquarie Pass is still usable so much of it has slid away
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 I know. Part of the rail line washed away at Otford as well, there were no trains for a couple of weeks while they fixed it.
@@miniveedub I was gonna say lucky no one lives in Otford lol but it would have been awful for commuters, like it's not hard enough to use the NSW train service 🤦♀️
Brisbane does get a lot of bad storms, Queensland is tropical so storms are common especially during summer. Lost my car to hail damage two years ago and a tree branch came down in our front yard two months ago due to storms.