More storms on the way.

Where we are on the Gold Coast was not severely hit by the storms yesterday, but Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast certainly took a pounding.

There is a good gallery of pictures on this link here at the Courier Mail newspaper. I can't find the embedding link to put in the pictures for this, so you will have to click on the link. There are reports of hail the size of golf balls in one place.

The Bureau of Meterology is copping some flack for not putting out enough storm warnings before the main storm hit late morning yesterday. But to be fair, they told us there would be bad storms. The other very good information source during storms is the ABC, our local station of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, (radio station) always have local people on hand day and night as long as severe weather is still likely. This is the link for the ABC, they also have some great pictures of lightning.

Last night they had Kelly Higgins-Devine on the ABC, and every half hour she was interviewing the Bureau of Meteorology, giving updates as to where the storms were, what was happening etc, and giving us up to the minute information. I think many people who don't listen to the radio these days won't know about that. The ABC runs this service in any place in Australia during any kind of  severe event, not only storms, but fires, hurricanes etc.

We only had 20 mls of rain here over the past  24 hours, not a lot, and it was generally gentle rain. The grass is happy though, it has greened up already. But they are forecasting more strong storms for us today, and the Gold Coast may get a few more than yesterday. Lets see what happens.