The storm in Sydney noticed the SES hit with greater than 500 requires assist, together with about 200 fallen bushes.
Queensland is subsequent within the firing line with the storms, with big hailstones and damaging winds anticipated from the Gold Coast as much as Rockhampton in the present day.
“This is just the start of thunderstorm season,” Nine climate presenter Garry Youngberry has defined on Today.
“Temperatures for the rest of the week will be well above average. We have a very unstable atmosphere. The humidity has arrived for summer.
“Put all these substances collectively it not solely spells thunderstorms however extreme thunderstorms, and it will likely be a really lively thunderstorm season I’m forecasting throughout south-east Queensland.”
Meanwhile, an extreme heatwave is occurring across northern WA, the NT, bringing record high temperatures.
Mandora in WA soared to 48.5C on Sunday, marking the area’s highest temperature on record, according to Weatherzone.
The last time it came close to this record was on December 22, 1981 when it reeached 48.4C.
The temperature fell just 1.5C off the highest December temperature ever recorded in WA, which was when Eucla reached 49.8C on December 19, 2019.
Sydney skies darkened, a warning of the sudden storm to come back
