Storms in Australia HIT DIFFERENT

[@Di_678]

Hey Ryan. Our Trampolines have sides for the kids safety. Remember that double bounce, bouncing someone off the trampoline? No more. They just fall into the strong mesh around it and don't go through the springs like we did 😂😅

[@dianaperry1929]

Less broken bones😂😂 True👍

[@FionaEm]

I'm kinda nostalgic for the days when you could just about guarantee a major trampoline fall and the bragging rights that followed 😅

[@utha2665]

Yeah, as a kid we had one dug into the ground and I double bounced a friend and he came back down and I landed on his arm and broke it. It was pretty funny after the fact but at the time we both got flack from our respective parents.

[@Streetw1s3r]

And the new ones don't even have springs, it's like some kind of new technology.

[@idiotnoob6009]

I had a trampoline without a net and my brother got double bounced and broke his arm

[@nufgorf]

As a kid, I actually managed to run inside a dust devil. It was fun feeling the air almost playfully tugging you upwards - not enough to scare me as a child, but as I said, it felt like nature was being playful. 50 years on, it still brings a smile to my face. Of course, I was coughing and sneezing mud for a few hours afterwards! 🤣

[@Kayenne54]

We lived out west for a while, they were quite common to see, but if they picked up loose corrugated iron sheeting...things got interesting...

[@tanyabrown9839]

I dont know how you did that as those used to scare me and they really make ones skin sting from all the dirt one gets hit by and that was only tiny ones, it would really sting the face etc.

[@felicitybywater8012]

Shit yeah, I loved getting in dust devils too.

[@sarahjulien2831]

Lucky! I never managed to catch one 😕 lol

[@ozzylad2497]

Yeah I got in one in FNQ ... strange feeling.

[@petersomers4353]

Our hurricanes are called cyclones and mainly happen in the north of Australia because it is tropical.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

We have one of the coast of WA at the moment.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

The correct term is cyclone. Americans are just wrong, again.

[@n3vulaa]

@@RandomStuff-he7lu agreed. They’re wrong about most things. (Politics included. No idea what’s happening there)

[@thespreeman401]

And they turn opposite way

[@Paul197A]

Exactly. Ryan should look up Cyclone Tracy.

[@jimmyTimtam]

We had the trampolines with just the springs back in the 90's these are the new types of trampoline that protects kids from falling off the edge and into the springs.

[@gordowg1wg145]

or drunk adults 😉😎

[@revan7364]

Also stops kids turning them on side and running up till it tips. Also stops from getting on roofs xD

[@bblake5116]

Been through a lot of cyclones here in far North Queensland, the worst for us was Cyclone Larry in 2005, it hit in the daylight, which they never really do. My daughter was 5 months old, this child never slept. But she slept through the 5 hour cyclone, only time she slept well, typical Australian kid

[@mariabutler8680]

Althea in 1971 struck townsville in the day time, Christmas eve. I was only 11 and thought it was fun..

[@circleofleaves2676]

As a queensland kid, I was the silly-billy to put her stackhat on and run out into the hail. I once saw a kid try to fit a huge hail stone in their lunch box, and failed.

[@1970GenXer]

​@@mariabutler8680 I'm in Townsville as well, I was one year old when it went through.

[@Kayenne54]

All that WHITE NOISE lol...I'm presuming you all got through Cyclone Larry safely...I feel very bad for the animals, particularly the birds, during those high wind events...

[@bblake5116]

@@Kayenne54 the winds stripped the rainforest around Innisfail, they had to drop fruit for the cassowaries by helicopter, as they had no food. Animals are very sensitive to cyclones, they hide well. But a lot of us go looking for any injured animals after cyclones.

[@karinaw977]

Australian houses, particularly in the north have cyclone ratings. They need to be built to withstand cyclones. Houses built in South east Queensland and Northern NSW are built on stilts due to flooding (older styles anyway) And other houses have to have a fire break which is a space between the house and trees. It’s not the animals that kill you, it’s the weather.

[@toby9999]

In terms of death by animals, dogs are likely one of the main culprits. I haven't even seen a snake in 20 years.

[@janined5784]

I think the reason houses are built on stilts in Queensland is also to let the air flow through and underneath, because it's so hot and humid. I think that style of house is called "a Queenslander" ? Correct anyone? I'm not sure if they still build them like that now, since air conditioning was invented.

[@C21L01]

It’s actually the law in Cyclone prone Australia that all buildings need to be able to withstand Cat 5 Cyclonic wind speeds. It’s more than just needing a Cyclone rating - they’ve got to be able to stand up to Cat 5 wind speeds. That’s why in the past 30 years or so there’s been so few deaths recorded as a direct result of Cyclones.

[@janined5784]

@@C21L01 Thank God for our Australian building standards.

[@mandamoo494]

@@toby9999 gosh where do you live? I live in northern NSW and have seen 3 snakes in my backyard in the last month alone. Including one red belly black snake.

[@meenaz1934]

Actually there is nothing worse than being at work during a storm wondering how your house is holding up, how your family and pets are doing and wondering when or if you'll get home. Cyclone and flooding trauma

[@weenacfeegle3086]

The anxiety is crippling. My parents are elderly and live on an island; the older they get, the more I panic if there's a storm headed in their direction.

[@lillynichols9884]

I paused the video to find this comment! (Or write it, but it’s 4 months old, so I was sure someone had said it by now!) I remember being stuck at work, with my mother stuck wherever she was working, and my 14yo daughter stuck at home. It was horrendous. Same situation, with bushfires, are just as bad.

[@sueburn536]

I have to admit, I fully laughed out loud when you said "I've never heard of a hurricane hitting Australia"! Man, we get several every year. A Cat 4 is currently brewing in the northwest of WA and has prompted evacuations across the whole Kimberley and Pilbara regions!

[@MandyJArt]

I mean technically he never will hear of a hurricane hitting us, because they're called cyclones south of the equator & spin the opposite direction to 🌀

[@janined5784]

That's right, and its effects are often felt as far south as Perth, thousands of kilometres away, but usually with only rain by that stage as the force is diminished.

[@rossbrumby1957]

@@janined5784 every cyclone that hits the northwest of Australia, the weather from it washes down southeast, making storms that hit the Yorke Peninsula and Adelaide. We've just been through it during this last week.

[@janined5784]

@@MandyJArt Plus, hurricanes are a particular type of weather system and don't form over land, but over the sea. Yes, we have tropical cyclones here in Oz.

[@joey6451]

it actually turned to cat 5

[@brettevill9055]

Hurricanes that hit Australia are called "tropical cyclones". The "tame, chill tornado" is what I would call a "willi-willi", but in other Englishes it's called a "dust devil". You ought to look into what happens when willi-willis form over burning grassland or brush. The search term is "fire tornado". We tend to get more hail in warm-humid climates in Spring or Summer, so in different places and at different times than snow.

[@JustJokes-bw4fs]

I've always called them a willi willi as well

[@jaymills6091]

@@JustJokes-bw4fs me too.

[@staples4335]

Whirly whirly. As the wind whirls around.

[@jayemes1552]

Definitely willy-willy. It's the Aboriginal word for whirlwind/dust storm.

[@_MidnightSnow_]

FINALY somone is willing to explain it to people who don’t know 😂

[@Jen.V843]

I live in Brisbane and I remember that storm (2014). It was so strong that rain was horizontal and went under awnings and inside shops (the windows had been broken by hail). The storm flipped small planes at the airport and caused $1 billion dollars of damage. The glass companies made a killing! Winds were 144 mph (232km/hr).

[@gigracer]

The “sandstorm “ was actually a dust storm. They can be absolutely enormous, hundreds of kilometres wide. There was a massive one in 2009 that affected a good chunk of the Eastern coast of Australia and even covered the New Zealand Southern Alps in dust from Central Australia. In Brisbane we had a huge hail storm in 2014 that caused $1.1 billion damage. You could probably find some videos or news stories about it online

[@Merrid67play]

I think that footage was from the 2009 duststorm. It looked familiar: it was the one that made it all the way to Sydney.

[@WitchyMamaof2]

That 2009 dust storm was crazy. We closed up the house as we saw the red clouds coming over the hills but I was still cleaning red dust out of my house for weeks. We live in Northern NSW.

[@aprilries]

Yeah the 2014 one was crazy!! My dad actually fixed allot of the houses with insurance claims, it was crazy

[@pauls478]

Don't forget the enormous dust storm of the mid 1980s (1983 IIRC) - started in NSW then rolled south into SA and VIC.

[@xenamerry]

Yep. If it was a sandstorm you could be severely injured like being sand blasted.

[@bblake5116]

In Stanthorpe they have hail guns, which are sonic booms, to break up hail to protect the apples and other stone fruit growing there. This area gets bad hail storms.

[@mehere8038]

that's pretty awesome! I've never heard of that before! Had no idea such a thing existed

[@annieinwonderland]

We literally have a campaign called get ready Queensland. For storm season yes we in Queensland called storm season in Queensland. We also have a volunteer organisation called the ses ( yes volunteer) that is trained to go and do temporary work until insurance people can assess what needs to be done. It would make an amazing episode to do the history of the SES and they ate trained for swift water rescue and to assist in other ways during natural disasters and looking for missing people where time is critical. Australians are just built different we are really good at bouncing back but have a look at the 2011 floods it even flooded inland. And we call them cyclones

[@bigoz1977]

We get hurricanes here but they are called cyclones. We actually have one forming off the northwest coast right now😳

[@vtbn53]

You beat me to it, only by 2 minutes though! LOL

[@alphgeek]

The main difference is they spin in opposite directions.

[@raydenn6027]

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa is forecast to cross the coast near Wallal as a Category 4 system with winds to 280 kmh. They have buried shipping containers as Cyclone shelters. Tropical Cyclones, Typhoons and Hurricanes are the same tropical storm system.

[@wobbyenna]

Guess who is currently in the north west coast😅

[@bigoz1977]

@@wobbyenna stay safe if it hits 👍🏻🤞🏻

[@pamelabaars6896]

The dust storms are incredibly scarey, then you have the clean up which is a real pain. Not as scarey as a bushfire or flood though.

[@chrisonYTtour]

I’m on the sunny coast in Qld… a few years back we had a spate of really bad storms, I lost 3 cars to hail damage within 3 years… all insured, but still freaking annoying

[@ACDZ123]

Sunny coast lol.. you Queenslanders wouldn't know what real sunshine is 😅

[@Dr_KAP]

Do we get hail more often than we get snow? Remember that Australia is the size of continental USA. So you would get a different answer from a Florida resident vs a Michigan resident 😂 But as a general rule not much snow in Oz! In Sydney, I live 20 mins away from my parents and we have had at least 2-3 hailstorms a year while they haven’t had any!! Some areas of Sydney just seem to really cop it while others get none! Oh and Sydney never gets snow.

[@jenessalarge7621]

Brisbane is the same with the hail. The south side and Gold Coast seem to get the worst storms but the North side (north side of the Brisbane River and north of the inner city) seem to get less hail and less severe storms. Also, cyclones only develop in warm water so they are a northern Australian thing (tropical/ sub tropical zones) so they rarely get a far down as Brisbane (or Perth if on the Western side). If we do get cyclones further south than normal it usually results in flooding which can be just as damaging as the cyclone itself.

[@suzanne5807]

Same in Perth, occasional hail and no snow. One year we had a big hail storm and thousands of people had damage to their cars. They claimed insurance, cars written off and next thing you know there were a bunch of dented cars being sold everywhere 😅

[@continental_drift]

The Trampoline is circular, It has a safety net around it so that kids don't fall on the ground or impale themselves on the springs. Same as your noticed in the second one, a different style spring. The house in stilts was being raised, the stumps were temporary until the new foundations are created.

[@bhsaproduction]

the majority of children’s trampolines in Australia are spring free. They no longer have the traditional mat stretched by metal springs (under heavy tension) as these caused lots of injuries if you fell on them, between them or got fingers and hair caught in them. Mostly now the floor / map is held up by flexible arms or legs. There are some traditional units still around, but mostly for competition purposes or at sports ventures with additional safety covers.

[@mehere8038]

meanwhile another comment says springless are available, but price prohibitive, so most people still have traditional spring ones with cover mats & netting around the mat

[@GeTtHeDoG1883]

Majority my arse.

[@Merrid67play]

You have to realise that Queensland spans the subtropics to the tropics. The storms are pretty fierce in the subtropics, but the tropics get cyclones. That was a waterspout that was videoed off the coast of NSW. And NSW also gets the occasional tornado; one hit a southern suburb of Sydney in 2015. It was afterwards that the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) confirmed that the wind speeds met the criteria for a tornado.

[@FM-qm5xs]

There was a tornado in Hornsby in 2019. I was living less than 1km away at the time and didn't even know about it until after.

[@lamsmiley1944]

We had a hail storm in Canberra at the start of 2020, and you still see loads of cars driving around with hail damage.

[@Lib234]

Trampoline’s are in almost every backyard, the kids are safe in these. I thought they were everywhere in the western world ❤

[@bencodykirk]

The trampolines in the video were springless trampolines. One of them was a Springfree® Trampoline - which is an American company. They're very safe, but very expensive. They sell them in Australia from about A$1000 for a little one or A$3000 for a big one! Most people here in Australia (and other countries) would have normal spring trampolines and many of those would have nets around them and pads over the springs for safety.

[@soniacampbell7964]

That Brisbane storm in 2014 was the most violent I have ever seen. Extreme wind and giant hail and it came in very quickly. There were over 60,000 insurance claims for damage to cars. It hit right on rush hour and so many people were stuck in gridlocked traffic in their cars.

[@1001reasons1968]

I will never forget that storm. We got hammered. Sometimes I go back to watch KZbin footage because it's so amazing. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse it just kept escalating.

[@LissBliss44]

I worked at Toowong Village at the time - hail ripped through the glass windows and canvas roof of the centre and hail and falling glass showered the shopping centre. Then the rain just poured in and onto the escalators. It was crazy!

[@aprilries]

Ah it was crazy!! My dad got called in to repaire houses with insurance claims, it was a crazy storm.

[@BroDog555]

thank you for reacting to our weather mate funny thing we get where i live an average of 4 hail storms a year and i quite enjoy them... when im not out in the open that is

[@Rosiewants2know]

9:51 get yourself a man who looks at you the way Ryan looks at a dust devil 😂

[@CyberAdam64]

The carpark scene starting at 4:43 is during Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia (Category 4 when it hit Rockhampton) in February 2015. Because of the wind and rain, it flooded the carpark which is located underneath Stocklands Rockahmpton (a shopping center/mall). The shopping center crosses a creek which this carpark in the footage is right beside.

[@blacksorrento4719]

If there are palm trees growing in the video, highly doubtful you will get snow Ryan, you will definitely get hail. 😊 Our tropical storms are a deluge. Just stay where you are till it passes. Snow is mainly down on the SE states NSW, Vic & Tas. We get more snow than the Swiss Alps, believe it or not!

[@JustJokes-bw4fs]

They were storms you were watching. We have cyclones as well, which are just like hurricanes. We have had some devastating cyclones in our history in the past, like Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, that destroyed the whole town on Christmas Day to Cyclone Yasi 2011 and Cyclone Marcia 2015 to name a few.

[@thatetgamer4004]

Can't forget Debbie too

[@1970GenXer]

Althea 1971

[@C21L01]

What about Cat 4 Cyclone Larry of 2006? Bananas, anyone? Oh… that’s right. Larry completely “ate” the entire crop that had been ready for harvest. 🤷‍♀️ $22 kg for a bunch of bananas. 🤦‍♀️

[@Charlie.Fraser]

I have a core memory from my childhood of me and my brother trying to push eachother out from under the patio into the hail

[@mcos2314]

That is a springless trampoline. Common in Aus as they're less dangerous than a typical trampoline

[@bencodykirk]

Bloody expensive though!

[@littleflick]

That little sand tornado is called a “Willy Willy” or “Dust Devil” it isn’t strong enough to suck up much more than just sand and dirt. They don’t usually get much bigger than the ones shown.

[@mehere8038]

and fire, that's the interesting one, when one forms over a bushfire, it sucks that up too & creates a "fire tornado" (that normally only really lasts a few seconds in most cases)

[@C21L01]

He wouldn’t want to see a fully formed Waterspout then if he’s scared of a dust devil. Australia gets fully formed actual Tornadoes too just like USA.

[@andrewmurphy9292]

A willi willi or dust devil is a ground level "thermal" made visible because it is travelling over loose material. Thermals or thermal convection is usually fairly benign at ground level, but generally strengthen as they rise. They actually can lift a huge amount of weight, gliders use this type of atmospheric phenomena to stay aloft and travel many hundreds of kilometres. It is thermals that feed millions of tonnes of water into thunderstorm clouds and are often responsible for the turbulence we experience on commercial airlines.

[@Ryzi03]

Interesting fact: The mountains in the Victorian High Country and NSW Snowy Mountains get more snow per year than all of Switzerland

[@mehere8038]

nice myth that one

[@Ryzi03]

@@mehere8038 Not necessarily a myth. Our snow is spread out over large areas of remote wilderness so most people never realise how much actually falls. Victoria alone is also 5.5 times larger than Switzerland so it’s kinda just simple math that we’ve got a larger area to collect snow. Mark Oates has a good series of videos of a winter crossing of the AAWT showing just how much snow we actually get

[@mehere8038]

​@@Ryzi03 sorry, but in no way is the maths on your side! Switzerland is 41,285 km² & receives snow throughout that entire area for 6 months of the year, & in the mountains, for 12 months of the year, getting on average half a metre of snow a year in the lowlands, 2-4 metres a year in the mountains. Victoria gets snow ONLY in the mountains, that are a grand total of 5,199 km2, so it needs to get 8 times the amount of snow that Switzerland gets in order to get more snow than it & it does NOT get 32 metres of snow in the 3 months of the year it gets any snow does it! The claim of Australia getting more snow than Switzerland was made in a government propaganda video many decades ago, but there has never been any evidence provided to back it up & in reality, the claim is seen as so ludicrous outside Australia that no-one beyond our shores has ever really even bothered debunking it. That propaganda claim appears over & over, with zero corroborating evidence & equally people ask over & over again if it's true & time after time, they are met with the answer that it's just a ridiculous claim & there is zero evidence to support it & ample, overwhelming evidence that it's straight out wrong. The only way the claim MAY be able to be found true would be to say that Australia has more snowfall in July than Switzerland does. There's no evidence either way still, but that probably has a reasonable chance of being true. Annually though, it's nonsense. Snow doesn't fall below 1000 metres of altitude in Australia (and that's starting sprinkles, the higher, the more snow), so land above that altitude is what you need to be comparing & we simply have next to none compared to Switzerland that has countless mountains double the height of our highest "mountains". You also need to consider latitude, Victoria's at 40 degrees at it's base, Switzerland's at 50 degrees & 10 degrees is a LOT! That's the distance from the base of Victoria to the Qld border! So you need to factor in that level of climate variation when comparing Vic to Switzerland too. Victoria is to Swiss snowfall as Brisbane is to Victorian snowfall. And even when we add NSW & Tasmania in, we still don't come close to what Switzerland gets! Only way we can get higher than them is to add our Antarctic territories to our stats, otherwise, the claim just makes us look like a country of uneducated bogans

[@luvkyno7]

@@mehere8038 Not to be that guy.... but you're that 1 random person who goes WWAAYYY to hard on something not necessary at all lmfao. It's snow, who cares.

[@thatetgamer4004]

The biggest hailstone recorded in Australia was Halloween 2020. Deebing Heights, QLD. It was a whopping 15.2cm!

[@top40researcher31]

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.

[@petersomers4353]

That small tornado is called a willie willie and is pretty harmless.

[@alphgeek]

Yeah the only danger they pose is to glider pilots and skydivers basically. We were taught to stay the hell away from them if in the air.

[@EvDiener]

I got caught it one standing next to a fence. I had to hold on to it with all the strength I had. I was bruised all over. It was scary.

[@andrewmurphy9292]

A willi willi is a blessing to glider pilots, it is a very clear indication of thermal up draft.

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

Different States in Aus have different weather and storm types. Here in Queensland, we get Tropical weather and we sometimes get freak lightning Storms or Very Heavy rainfall. Sometimes hail Stones, but not very often. In Aus, Hurricane's are called Cyclones. They are not the exact same, but similar. Due to how the weather works on different parts of the planet, they are slightly different and form in different areas. They are called Hurricanes when they develop over the North Atlantic, Central North Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific. They are known as Cyclones when they form over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. And they are called Typhoons when they develop in the Northwest Pacific. In America you have Tornadoes and Twisters. Tornado and Twister are different names for the same type of storm: a violently rotating column of air over land associated with a severe thunderstorm. In Australia we have Dust Devils and Whirlwinds. Dust Devils are dust-filled vortices, created by strong surface heating, and are generally smaller and less intense than a Tornado. Typical diameters of Dust Devils range from 10 to 300 feet, with an average height of approximately 500 to 1000 feet. In most locations, Dust Devils typically last only a few minutes before dissipating. A Tornado must originate from Clouds. If the vortex extends from the ground to the funnel at the base of the cloud, it is then classified at a Tornado. In comparison, Dust Devils originate from a Whirlwind on the ground and typically do not grow very big. A Whirlwind is a column of air moving rapidly around and around in a cylindrical or funnel shape. Usually they are very small. They can grow into Dust Devils. Typically speaking, all they do is blow dust and leaves in your face, which is very annoying. Mostly you see them commg, as you see leaves and dust blwoing in a small circle, and you close your mouth, so it only gets in your eyes usually, which is annoyig. So, a Tornado is way stronger as it comes from clouds and has more force, and moves down from the Clouds to the ground. A Dust Devil or Whirlwind is much smaller as it has no force, just a wind pattern coming from the ground and going up.

[@nakedarse2507]

There is a cyclone off the coast where I live at the moment , biggest one in 10 years , last one 2 months ago dropped so much rain that the local river went from 150 mtrs to 50kms wide , washing thousands of cattle out to sea ...

[@ACDZ123]

Hi. You up in port Hedland or Broome?

[@nakedarse2507]

@@ACDZ123 Broome town , bit of rain so far

[@carmie9759]

Stay safe 🙏🏻

[@denisemangan1413]

When cyclone Tracy hit in the early 70’s my dad, a plumber, had to go up to Darwin to do repair work. My friend’s brother in the navy went up too. Saw a sandstorm in Adelaide later to see the same one in my science book

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Oh yeah, i remember watching cycling Tracey on the TV, that was sadly devastating.

[@suemontague3151]

Yeah Christmas day 😢1974

[@ACDZ123]

Mid 70s

[@suemontague3151]

@@ACDZ123 1974

[@ComaDave]

Flew from Melbourne to Brisbane in 2015 and landed just ahead of one of those insane storms. The courtesy bus ride from the airport to the hotel might as well have been in thick fog, because the visibility out of the windows was nil. Fog isn't that loud, though. 😮 The driver was a total boss navigating, because there was more water than air in the atmosphere, that arvo. Another time in Sydney 1999, I was crossing Liverpool Street on foot when a downpour came from nowhere. When I took the first step - I was bone dry. When I got to the other side - I was soaked to the skin. No more than 45 seconds.

[@mehere8038]

friend of mine had similar to you, but had hired a car & in what should have been a 5 minute drive from the airport to the hotel, but ended up half an hour, the storm hit & he hadn't taken out the extra insurance/no eccess option on the hirecar, so very expensive little trip for him!

[@circleofleaves2676]

6:12 - 6:35 (where you said you'd never seen a storm like that before) was in Moorooka, which is a suburb of Brisbane. I used to live in Moorooka and I still live in Brisbane. A good number of the clips you saw were in Brisbane. It's the subtropics and we're knwon for our wild storms.

[@stewartwaterman7837]

I remember some years ago seeing a report of a dust storm that blacked out Sydney and they said it came from the west. What they failed to mention is that this dust storm started way over in the centre of South Australia some 1000kilometers (600 miles) away.

[@MrThomas864]

Yep I live in Brissy n always love the summer storm season, house flooded, car messed up, just another year, she'll be right mate ✌️

[@littleflick]

We used to have mad dust (sand) storms in the town I grew up in. It was like the video, you could see it rolling in. It would be mid afternoon and when the dust came over it would become almost as dark as night. I worked in retail in a plaza one spring and the dust cloud rolled in so fast it blew straight into the building before they got around to shutting the glass doors. Such a mess.

[@maggsroce8515]

Good morning Ryan, its 10.47 am on the 13th of April, our cyclones are bad here lol. Just to let you know though, I am in West Australia and we just got a warning for a category 4 cyclone for the Broome area an hour ago. our winter has basically just started. there might be some footage for you in the next few days.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Gee willikers, I’m staying put in Victoria. I’ve never seen hail stones that big or rain so heavy. I’ve seen one gigantic dust storm in early 1980s, I was driving and it was terrifying to see - something coming at you slowly and having no idea what it was. Luckily I got home before it hit. I have family and friends in Queensland and they’ve told me of some terrible flooding and storms.

[@MsFocksy]

We had the Christmas storm in Melbourne back 10 years ago that wiped out most of the north of the city. The insurance company I was working for had over 15000 home insurance claims and 19000 car insurance claims. It wasn't fun.

[@JayWhy1964]

Ironically, the houses are built up to let the air flow under them for cooling in the Queensland summer heat

[@sunisbest1234]

And air circulation in the wet season to, hopefully prevent mold etc growing in the main area of the house. Also for floods. That's why I don't understand why they are building so many modern homes on stabs of concrete up in the north. Not practical, really. ( from an ex-FNQ'er )

[@bj011990]

​@sunisbest123 floods is pretty much the main reason for stilts know that much from living on the Clarence River but slab houses are taking over here aswell just seems to be the new building normality for some reason but also not complaining because it makes my job on a concrete pump alot easier so ease of build could be a reason

[@mehere8038]

@@sunisbest1234 I wonder how concrete compares to a non-Qlder raised floor. I've always lived in those normal level raised floor homes until my current one & they were always hot. My current home is on a concrete slab & has a whirly bird in the bathroom & I love the heat, but simply cannot get it hot inside! I'm in Sydney, so not as hot as Qld, but in those 46c days we had a few years back, I literally opened everything up & tried to get it as hot as I could inside, I managed to get it up to 28c in the end, with a LOT of work! Then in came a southerly, but I closed everything up tight before it hit to keep it warm, but nope, within an hour it was back down to 22c inside my home!!!! Frustrating as h***. Anyway, I wonder if the slab's a factor, the whirly bird certainly is!

[@sunisbest1234]

@@mehere8038 possibly so. Up north, however, it's floods and constant damp/mould in the wet, to contend with as well. (Although after the last year or so, flooding could be a threat everywhere, the next big wet we have.)

[@geekchick4859]

Yep, Townsville flooded because slab on ground houses were allowed to be built on a flood plain. Very clever. Then they built the flooded school - which was off the ground - back slab on ground!! Stupid Qld government.

[@stephenmaguire6670]

A category 5 cyclone is about to cross the NW coast of Western Australia in the next 24hrs. Luckily they mostly impact lowly populated areas however a cat 5 totally leveled Darwin on Christmas day 1975.

[@C21L01]

Tracy was officially rated a Cat 4 before the measuring equipment was destroyed. And that wasn’t even the eye wall winds. While it’s believed to this very day that Tracy was indeed a Cat 5, there’s no official record of it therefore she’s forever destined to be rated Cat 4. Also, she was a midget cyclone and just like little men who are big upstarts, midget cyclones are viscous little things. 😢

[@jayemes1552]

My insurance company sends me a text when there's a hail warning so I can get my car under cover. It has never hailed after the warning but I just know that the one time I ignore it I'll regret it.

[@peterhoz]

Houses on stilts are quite common in Queensland, it is for airflow (natural cooling) rather than flooding.

[@JayWhy1964]

You need to research cyclone Tracy which devastated Darwin in 1974

[@oakfat5178]

Happy Arvo Ryan, The extra springs are shock absorbers so trampolines don't get so damaged when they blow away.

[@martinmoessmer9527]

Yep, we get all sorts of weather down here every year. We do have annual ski fields in Victoria and NSW. It's 'wet' snow compared to what you experience.

[@daveg2104]

They do get powder on the NSW ski fields. And I will assume Victoria too. It isn't always wet snow.

[@martinmoessmer9527]

By international standards it's wet snow.

[@daveg2104]

@@martinmoessmer9527 No. By international standards, they get powder. As to how "dry" it is, well, that depends on the temperature. It's still classed as "powder" though. Some places overseas get powder as a standard, we have to be a bit lucky, and even then, it doesn't normally last that long. There is nothing magical about powder snow, but it is certainly good for beginners, it gives you a softer landing if you fall over.

[@martinmoessmer9527]

@@daveg2104 Onya champ.

[@n3vulaa]

Also I’m just gonna answer some questions: Yes: hail happens far more often than snow due to the wind currents: cold fronts from the Antarctic are to blame. Trampolines: our trampolines generally have the springs underneath, either because of kids or other reasons- not sure about that one. Tornado: …cyclone. Hail repair: some people have carports/garages, but some just deal with it. Floods: blame La Niña. Every 3 years (on average), the rain comes to visit. Winds: lotta winds. See: stupid weather patterns. Houses on stilts: many reasons. Also if we paid for a new house every time, that’d just be expensive. Storm intensity: yeah, that happens: also its called a cyclone, but it *could* be called a typhoon. Hail: see: weather patterns, search ‘em up. Too lazy to explain. ‘Chill’ tornado: willi-willi (dust devil). They can get pretty annoying to deal with though. Did it blow the trash can(bin) sideways: …yes. Also old cars are frickin magical, indestructible. Also, during floods, animals take refuge in homes! Okay I’m done I’m too lazy for this. (Correct me please if I need correcting)

[@exuletempus]

5:30 That statement means something VERY different in Australia "...just ROOT for it to fall..." 😉😂🤣😁

[@tileux]

We had a hailstorm like that across perth about 12 years ago. It resulted in thousands of cars covered in dents - those cars looked like golf balls. Quite a few thousand cars got written off. Every now and again you would see some of those hail dented cars around on the roads. Obviously some people didnt have insurance. You cant repair those hail dimples - its a straight write-off. I have about 1500 parachute jumps, military and civilian. You see dozens of those dust devils/willi willies in summer from a plane. I even saw a guy go into one under a parachute with a big wing loading and get dumped straight on his arse on hard ground from about 10 metres up. He was badly grazed up and bruised. He was also extremely pissed off.

[@evilsaddist666]

We have had at least 3 storms like this in the past week. I’m a claim specialist for home claims and I was amazed at the lack of claims from the latest round of storms. Cyclone cat 4 to hit WA Thursday night will have me busy for months. I cringe for the birds and animals caught in our weather, poor cockatoo has no hope against hail.

[@mehere8038]

I dunno, I think cockatoos probably fair well in them compared to many other bird & animal species. Cockatoos use tree hollows for breeding, so at least some should still have access to their nest hollow to escape it & at least one of the ones around my way has figured out that if it sits on a pot hanger under my eves, it stays dry when it's raining, so presumably it & others will do that with hail too

[@yeetedwaldo6019]

Trampoline at the end reminded me of the time my family took every possible step we could to prevent our trampoline from flying off- removing the safety net and bars, turning it over, weighing it down. All to have the neighbour's trampoline fly through our back fence and directly into our trampoline as if it was fuelled by vengeance. Big storms are pretty common in the coastal parts of Australia, and they come on really suddenly a lot of the time. I remember being at school one day and looking out the library window every few minutes to see it had changed from sunny to raining to hard hail, then going back to sunny. Recess was only half over lol. Definitely hails more than it snows here. I lived for nine years in the mountains and though it snowed there maybe two times every winter, we definitely had a lot of hail. Not much you can do aside from drape the cars with blankets and stand back saying "far out"

[@gregoryparnell2775]

People from overseas are always worried about our cute spiders & snakes & they don't think about the Floods ,Bushfires & Cyclones.

[@petebeatminister]

Such hail storms can indeed cause enormous damage to cars. I remember one case in Munich when thousands of cars got damaged. And other stuff too, of course. It cost insurances hundreds of millions. Years later you could see cars driving around with this golf ball look, because its not cost effective to actually repair such a car. It would basically need a complete new outer surface. But it still drives just fine after the windows are repaired, so many people just kept it.

[@jessk457]

We had a hail storm in Brisbane a few years back and it smashed so many windows there was a 6 month wait to get your windows fixed. Also everyone's car got destroyed and were replaced on insurance.

[@circleofleaves2676]

That was november 2014. I remember windows staying smashed for months and months.

[@weenacfeegle3086]

I was pulling a sixteen hour shift at work, I heard that a bad storm had hit the inner city, but where I was working, we just had wind and heavy rain. When I did get home, I did something I never do, which was forget to take my steel caps off before stepping on the carpet. Glad I did; I turned on the lights, broken glass everywhere. Three windows with holes punched in them. One hole was a very close call; I had my tall rat cage in the corner, against the wall on one side and the window on the other. There was a hole punched through the glass right next to the cage. I ended up tearing the cage apart to check for glass and submitted my girls to a lengthy and invasive check for injuries, and fortunately all was well. I was home an hour before I finally got around to vacuuming up the glass. I was in the bottom of a two story block of units. My unit needed three large glass panels replaced, the one directly above me needed four , which was all their windows on one side. Three day wait just for the windows to be boarded up, I couldn't get any time off of work even though any random could have just waltzed into my unit. Insane.

[@jayweb51]

The slow turning sand column is called a whirlie.

[@Jessie20032]

Yes certainly are different our storms but we certainly do prepare for them and help each other out 😊 yeh probably more hail then snow , as to the trampoline it’s like that for safety so kids don’t fall off

[@littleflick]

That’s a safety trampoline. Much more common now. You can’t catch your hair/fingers/toes etc in the springs. When I was growing up we had the *dangerous* spring ones.

[@Juniperberry76]

Parts of Australia do get snow but nothing compared to US snow. We get a lot of hail storms.

[@dave_oz]

Recently there was a massive hailstorm in our capital city (Canberra). Damage bills were insane, I remember driving past the airport and seeing the collection of cars waiting on insurance assessment to be done, literally ~20k vehicles just there alone....

[@atticuslee1424]

Hey Ryan. Ive lived in Australia my whole life and I have been watching and enjoying your videos for a while now and was hoping you would do a reaction video of the NRL. Its a massive part of the sporting culture here and I'd love it if you could make a video about it.

[@kennethbell-hn9zv]

We're in the southern hemisphere they're called cyclones. I think they turn in the opposite direction. Trampolines in Australia have walls so kids or uncoordinated adults don't fly off.

[@jessbellis9510]

In Perth we had the Great Hail Storm and throughout the next year you could get relatively new second hand cars for super cheap because everyone was just selling off their dented cars.

[@TheEthiopian1987]

The trampolines you saw are the safe ones, you don't get limbs caught in the gap between springs and you don't get fingers caught in springs.

[@Machetekills31]

Supercells in Brisbane, around late November heading into summer, build up around Scenic Rim ,Great Dividing Range, Toowoomba etc usually produce the hail and heavy downpour, sweeping from west to east and then the bay.

[@56music64]

Had $45k damage from hail in October storm which hit Rosewood, Qld a few years back. Neighbour had a slightly larger house and a brand new caravan, his bill was $85k. Thank goodness we were both insured and both companies were great and quick to repair

[@G200Sleepr]

4:45 not that you asked, but that clip was 2015, under Stocklands Rockhampton, QLD during tropical cyclone Marcia. That left a couple of parts of the city without power for 7 days. The orchestra of generators running power and the number of extension leads ran between houses by neighbours was astounding. I remember being out in the street with my neighbours during the eye of the cyclone helping cut up and move trees and branches to make sure emergency crews could move about safely. We then all had to head back in when the second half of the cyclone came around.

[@puttster2003]

On the Atherton Tablelands, you can go from sunny day with birds chirping to chasing your patio furniture in the space of 20 minutes.

[@JustJokes-bw4fs]

We had a big hail storm in Perth many years ago that damaged all the cars that were not undercover at dealerships. They sold the cars off very cheap. People snapped them up and there were dimpled cars everywhere for a while there haha.

[@WyldOz]

I love dust devils! They were one of my favourite things as a kid living in the outback of the NT.... we called them 'Willy Willies' though ;) as soon as one would form all the kids would run straight in to it.. and it just stings your legs a little bit as the dust hits ya.

[@Waddl3s]

As someone whose whole town got hammered by an extreme hailstorm a couple years ago in Sydney, yes we all had to deal with insurance claims. Many people had to move out of their home and into new suburbs because the damage was so extensive. Many of us had damages that continued after the insurance repairs too due to their contractors being dodgy and cheap, like roof leaks and insufficiently installed colourbond roofing. Our La Niña season saw a ridiculous amount of hail storms too, particularly in Queensland around Brisbane and the hail storms were golf ball size + pretty much every time.

[@LindsayBarker-vx8hw]

As a child I lived in Burra in South Australia’s mid north. We were always being hit by dust devils (Whirlies). One hit our chook house, tore several sheets of iron off the roof and six chooks were “disappeared”. Those were the days!

[@powerzebra6464]

Lismore (a small town in Australia) Recently had THE WORST Flood in the Beginning of Last Year

[@oM477o]

We've got the metal spring style of trampoline too, but it's easy for kids to get injured if they land on the springs which is why this style is common now. We get a hail storm maybe once a year but it's usually very small blueberry sized hail stones. Insurance covered replacing my rooftop solar a few years back when we had some golfball sized hail.

[@jpmasters-aus]

I remember a hail storm in Sydney around 2000 that was huge, damaged a number of Qantas and other airlines aircraft that they needed to be repaired, and a new car import centre with a huge number of cars were all severely damaged.

[@ScoobyDoozy]

Half my childhood was in remote northern Australia. My parents used to throw some cracking cyclone parties. It was a local tradition. In the build up, work would stop (can’t mine in a cyclone). Everyone would stock up on grog, bring over a heap of seafood, & have a ripper of a party. My foremost memories are running around in the nuddy with my siblings & our friends, in torrential rain, smothered in an orange mud (no lawn there. All orange Pindan dirt) from all the rain. In the day or two before the cyclone hits, everyone of course would shelter in place. I remember doing the side of the house shuffle. Depending on what side the cyclone was hitting us, we’d all move into the opposite side of the house so we were furthest away from the winds at that moment in time. I remember complaining that I was bored. Being stuck in one room as a kid feels like a lifetime. We’d also pack the shower with some heavy blankets. That way, if we lost the roof, the entire family could squeeze into the shower, the inner most room of the house, with the most reinforced walls, & the smallest space of exposed roof above. I don’t live there now, but to this day, storms always feel like total magic to me. Fond memories that are written into my DNA. Love your channel, big love mates

[@RaymondSynold]

I used to volunteer for the SES and attended the aftermath of several storms - the worst hail storm I attended we had to tarp every roof in the town at a minimum. It took days with teams from all over New South Wales in attendance.

[@Bassman5000]

just because you needed to know, the last trampoline had the classic springs that go straight out to the frame from the mat, the ones that pinch your sack ;)

[@fibienn250]

In 2016, a massive hailstorm hit a town in far western NSW. The hail was the size of golf balls. It took around 5 years to repair/replace everything that was damaged. As for the dust storms, during the last drought, they were a regular occurrence. They were awful. The Skye would go red/black, no visibility and even if you manage to close all your windows and doors before one hit, you’d still be left with dust all through he house.

[@fibienn250]

The dust devil or willy willy are cool. Where I live it’s really flat and there’s very little vegetation. On hot days, during the drought, it was quite common to see 5 or more at the same time. They look powerful but generally they’re only dust and light debris. I’ve even got a video of us driving our car through one. It dissipated immediately, probably because we disrupted the airflow.

[@kyliedrage7062]

I'm originally from the Kimberly ( Kununurra) . We get the wet season which has huge monsoon storms massive amounts of rain and lightning. Then dry season usually not so much rain just awesome hot weather 👍

[@itzrayha2621]

1. Yes, a lot of our trampolines look like that:) 2. We’re I live, we had over a metre of rain in three days last year and it reminds me of that kind of rain, just constantly. 3. We have hurricanes rather often up north it’s just not that often mentioned on the news for some reason:) Have a good day everyone and I hope your doing good mates ❤

[@denicemaree9250]

Ryan I don't know if anyone else has tried to explain the pronunciation of emu for you in Australian it's "eem you " I am glad you have him for company but at some point you will have to give him to the baby, love your channel and the way you make comparisons we Aussies learn as much from you as you learn from us thankyou 😊

[@dave_oz]

Trampoline is a leaf system, there are a few manufacturers here that produce them but the traditional spring system is still common here as well

[@user-uh4tv2gr6u]

I remember the dust storms in Alice Springs in the 60's. Horizon is a wall of red, dust gets into everything and often a few spots of rain after = mud. Yep fun times cleaning up after

[@karenstrong8887]

Our trampolines used to be flat with springs coming out the side. They still are but for safety there is padding fitted over the springs and walls to protect the kids. I have no idea how I survived the dangerous ones or the old parks we had. When it rains here it really rains. Same with hail.

[@tanyabrown9839]

Our trampolines for safety have both sides and padding over the spring part. 2:46 a water sprout. I had one of those 150m from me one time, thank God I wasn't in the water and was standing on the beach when it occurred. It looked strong enough to have taken me up into the air had I been in the water and was sucking a heap of water up into it (scary enough watching it from shore). A couple of years ago a mini tornado went through my property, taking off parts of neighbor's roofs (a neighbour lost half of her roof). It took my greenhouse high up into the air (with the plants, some of the pots were big ones, still attached to shelves in it) . My greenhouse was completely destroyed (it had only been put up 10 days earlier) and ended up completely shattered across the block next door. The biggest hail I've seen in Adelaide was almost an inch in size but I know people who have had cars destroyed by hail including one of my workers in the past couple of years.

[@maxcrane1905]

Look up an Australian Cyclone called Steven. Traveled about 8,000 kilometers around Australia. Starts near Cairns in Qld. Goes across the across the Gulf of Carpentaria, Went under Darwin and out to sea, Tracked down the WAust coast. Went South East around Geraldton and crossed land to Esperance.

[@terben7339]

There is a cyclone just of the northwest coast of WA at the moment. Tropical Cylone Ilsa is forecast to be a Cat 4 storm when it crosses the coast early Friday morning.

[@TheCeleron450]

I’ve been through a hail storm with stones the size of oranges. That was certainly different. I also remember a F3 tornado touching down just outside town. We also had a large storm go through last Christmas Day, with trees down, power transmission poles down and road signs flattened just from the wind alone. So while these events are rare, they do happen.

[@shaneedwards6704]

Good ol' dust devils aka (willy willy's) when I was a young pup in school we'd put rubbish bins and our mates school bags in their path and laugh as they were thrown across the yard you can jump.into some of slower moving ones but ya end up with a nice sand blasting and less skin lol............ wow great memories lol

[@lincolnhodge2371]

We don't always get hail on the coastline because of the salt in air . But when we do it's not usually that big but before it landed would have been extremely huge those softball sized one were probably basketball size the golf ball size ones were probably the size of an softballs

[@rachaelyrebel5717]

i agree most places of Australia don't really see cyclones or hurricanes much

[@Wombatzone31]

I live in South-East Queensland, our storms are insane with the amount of water, wind and hail dropped. The heavy rain storms are very common, huge hail also very common, tornados not so common. Yes we get way more hail than snow here. Some storms it looks like it has snowed but is only hail stones.

[@kymdevenish-meares4684]

Here in Brisbane we often get hailstorms that would make you think it has snowed, only problem is it’s steamy hot summer. We get hail the size of baseballs regularly, but more common is golf ball size down. They cause a lot of damage and can cause serious injuries. I got hit on the elbow once and it almost broke my arm. Certainly left a graze. Bad summer storms are the norm for us.

[@shelljw]

LOL Ryan, us Aussies are tough, we just deal with it.... and we either say 'Far Out' or 'F&(k Me' or 'F&(k Me Drunk' LOL

[@peterwarner553]

Hail storms can be scary and very destructive, had one here a few years back, there was hardly a house in our suburb that people could live in without extensive repairs, hail stones punched straight through tiled roofs and then through ceilings, quite a few people were injured, luckily there were no fatalities.