Hail stones the size of 20 cent coins have battered the nation’s east coast as the weather bureau warns of more “violent” and “explosive” storms.
More thunderstorms are forecast to hit southeast Queensland and northern NSW on Wednesday as Victoria and Tasmania brace for up to four consecutive cold fronts and falling temperatures across the weekend.
Overnight, large hail stones wreaked havoc in southeast Queensland, with hail up to 5cm in diameter falling in multiple areas.
Wellcamp, Newtown and Toowoomba all saw hail sized between 3cm to 5cm at about 8pm, with Toowoomba also copping 45mm of rain in just 30 minutes.
Marble-sized hail also fell at a camping ground in Thane, west of Warwick.
A separate weather system delivered heavy rain to southeast NSW with Merimbula recording 124mm in 24 hours to 9am on Wednesday, its heaviest rain in more than 20 years.
Melbourne also recorded its third coldest day of the year with the maximum temperature reaching just 15.6C at 1pm on Wednesday. It was also the third coldest night of the year, dropping to 7.3C.
Sky News chief meteorologist Tom Saunders said southeast Queensland and eastern NSW were experiencing a “late season storm outbreak”.
“The storm season generally finished up in April but right now we’re seeing explosive storms in this region,” he said.
“A cold pool of air moving aloft across NSW, meanwhile at the surface temperatures are slightly above average and as a result we’re seeing an unstable atmosphere leading to further thunderstorms on Wednesday.”
Mr Saunders said severe storms were “essentially guaranteed” in southeast Queensland and northeast NSW on Wednesday with further damaging winds, hail and flash flooding.
“Only a small chance on Wednesday of storms around the Hunter, Sydney and Illawarra and still a risk of showers and the odd storm around the south coast of NSW but that heavy rain is easing offshore,” he said.
There is also set to be another burst of showers in Victoria and Tasmania to end the week as well as three to four cold fronts sweeping across the states on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Up to 25mm of rain could fall in west Gippsland and the west coast of Victoria, with up to 50mm on Tasmania’s west coast.
But there will be very little rain north of the Great Dividing Range.
“From Thursday onwards we are expecting several cold fronts to move across the state and temperatures are expected to dip down further with below average temperatures from Thursday onwards to early next week,” weather bureau senior meteorologist Michael Laczko said.
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