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Shoppers had to be evacuated when the roof of a Kmart store started to cave in as golf-ball sized hailstones and over 100,000 lightning strikes smashed parts of southeast Queensland overnight.
Footage uploaded to social media by one panicked shopper shows large sections of the ceiling collapsing at opposite ends of the Maroochydore store at Sunshine Plaza, with huge amounts of water gushing to the floor over exposed electrical wires.
Frightened customers are seen making their way out the discount chain at about 5:30pm on Wednesday, with one woman making a narrow escape.
Over 100,000 lightning strikes smashed Brisbane (pictured) and parts of southeast Queensland overnight
The Bureau of Meteorology warned severe thunderstorms will lash north-east NSW and south-east Queensland on Tuesday. With those severe thunderstorms, we re forecasting damaging winds, large hail, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and there s already some thunderstorms and showers on the radar at the moment, meteorologist Sarah Scully told Today.
The Bureau said a trough of low pressure will move across NSW in the coming days. Heavy rainfall is forecast for the south coast on Tuesday, with hail also possible.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned severe thunderstorms could lash north-east New South Wales and south-east Queensland on Tuesday. Pictured: A pedestrian tries to shelter from the rain in Sydney on Friday
Heavy rainfall is forecast for the south coast on Tuesday, with small hail also possible. Mid-May is a very unusual time of year to see severe storms in NSW, forecaster Jake Phillips said. In this particular case it s due to the combination of having a relatively significant amount of humidity around for this time of year, and also a very powerful upper level system moving through,
The storm activity will likely begin early in the morning, before peaking in the afternoon and petering out over Wednesday and Thursday.
Sydney and the Hunter region should be spared, but the BOM is urging all residents along the coast to be prepared for severe storms.
Millions of Australians will be plunged into an early winter with dangerous winds of up to 102km/h, horizontal rain, and snow in some regions.
South Australians will feel the brunt of the cold snap with damaging gusts of more than 100km/h around the south-eastern parts of the state on Monday afternoon, where there is a severe weather warning in place.
Adelaide will be slammed by winds peaking over 70km/h in the morning with a wind-chill factor of 13C, but the strongest gusts will be felt on Kangaroo Island, Meningie, Robe, Millicent and Lucindale in the state s south.