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Hail the size of golf balls has pelted Adelaide in a sudden downpour as spring storms moved across South Australia.

Hailstones collected in Adelaide

At one stage, the Bureau of Meteorology was tracking four thunderstorms moving in a south-easterly direction across Adelaide, the Barossa and the Fleurieu Peninsula.

Senior forecaster Mark Anolak said some rainfall stations had received between five to 10 millimetres in just 10 minutes.

Mr Anolak said the bureau put out a severe thunderstorm warning, "particularly cell-based warning" for the Adelaide metropolitan area about 4:25pm which was half an hour before it struck.

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How's this for size...........

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K.J.

 

 

 



-- Edited by kiwijims on Friday 11th of November 2016 07:53:27 PM

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I'm in Adelaide, we got some dark skies, a bit of thunder & a short, sharp shower of rain - media beat up! Back to perfect weather again ATM.

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Cadell got clobbered car looks like lemon peel with all the dents
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Mutley wrote:

I'm in Adelaide, we got some dark skies, a bit of thunder & a short, sharp shower of rain - media beat up! Back to perfect weather again ATM.

 Must have been a bit patchwork. My son was in Adelaide city and had to take cover from the biggest hailstones he had ever seen. Didn't last long, half an hour later the weather was calm and sunny. Go figure :)

cheers, John.



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I am at West Beach and it got pretty wild, horizontal rain, hail and wind. Lasted a short time but was intense. New van doesn't leak, yahoo. Bonus. Not the worst I've been in, showering during the worst, great light show standing outside the shower block waiting for the rain to stop watching the lightening!

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Mutley wrote:

I'm in Adelaide, we got some dark skies, a bit of thunder & a short, sharp shower of rain - media beat up! Back to perfect weather again ATM.

 Well I got beat up...!!! 



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IMG_2177.JPGMutley wrote:

I'm in Adelaide, we got some dark skies, a bit of thunder & a short, sharp shower of rain - media beat up! Back to perfect weather again ATM.

 Well I got beat up...!!! 



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Remember the Sun Tuff ad...??? the bloke jumpin up and down on the stuff...???

Well it dont like hail... my 3 sky lights are kaput too...

Was a bit of a klobberin I can tell ya... luck of the draw to where you were, poor old Subie looks like a golf ball now...!!!

vik... a big blue one...!!!

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Storm/hail damage is just one of the things that come with life on the road. (and at home)

Not a lot you can do about it sometimes. Just keep the insurance up.

Cheers, John.



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Just how would a motorhome fair in one do ya think...??? Are the sky lights a special stuff...??? how would the body go,fiberglass , Solar panels...???

My solar panels on the house were OK so looks like the makers took hail into account for them...

vik...



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Mighty sorry to hear of all the hail stone  damage in the Eastern States,

I see in the North they are suffering as well !!!!

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-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 13th of November 2016 06:34:37 AM

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Friends house in Mannum lost all the plastic sheeting on rear of house. Just the joins left but the rest on the floor.
Was very heavy rain and hail but not as bad as Adelaide but I sat in car till it finished as the hail on the nut would have hurt.

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