Not too much rainfall but the storm was nasty... (pics)

[cyprusmax47]

I expected much more rainfall after my area was hit last evening for more than 2 1/2 hours, Unfortunately I lost the largest palm tree in the garden either through lightning or strong gust of wind. The rainfall I measured was 10 liter/m2

Palm tree looks like it got struck by lightning




10 m to the left the second one had no problem though...


and one of my favourite trees, yellow flowers from September-February is also gone


Max

[galexinda]

The area near me had no electricity for 21+ hours due to a telegraph pole collapsing and cutting off the supply - literally held up by the cables!

[Anarita John]

It was Rosemary's birthday celebration and we held a party for all of our close neighbours in Anarita. We had looked at Weather Online the night before and the forecast was for showers mid morning and clearing by 2pm. Saturday we were busy preparing and my laptop was put away and we didn't have time to look at our phones. Sure enough, rain mid morning. Cleared by 1pm so tables and chairs put outside for our 24 guests. 4pm, lovely sunshine and our guests arrived. Drinks served and a few dark clouds in the distance. 5pm, a few spots of rain and then, without warning, a deluge. Everyone either inside or sheltering in a small alcove. All outside chairs soaking wet but we had a lull in the rain and managed to dry some and bring inside so everyone could be seated.
After 6pm, the storm really started up, but thankfully we did not suffer power cuts and Alexa provided us with music. 70 year olds really know how to party and we are lucky to have such good neighbours.

[cyprusmax47]

. Cleared by 1pm so tables and chairs put outside for our 24 guests. 4pm, lovely sunshine and our guests arrived. Drinks served and a few dark clouds in the distance. 5pm, a few spots of rain and then, without warning, a deluge. Everyone either inside or sheltering in a small alcove. All outside chairs soaking wet but we had a lull in the rain and managed to dry some and bring inside so everyone could be seated.

You was lucky that obviously at your place the windstorm was not so strong than in other places like mine, otherwise chairs and tables could have landed in the swimming pool.

I lost two huge trees in my garden which is a pity. On the other hand I was also lucky as my testing photovoltaic module (22 kg) landed just on the edge of my pool after flying ca 5 m through the air without damage and still working....good that the connection cables were long enough.

Max

[Anarita John]

One of our neighbours had stacked a pile of 3 sunbeds on the flat roof of their roof garden. It is surrounded by railings. The wind lifted one of the sunbeds off the pile and transported it onto the sunshade below. Our outside flipflops ended up blown over our wall into next doors garden. We managed to pile all of the outside chairs up. Luckily, the fold up tables didn't move but were damaged by the hailstones, some of which were bigger than golf balls.

[Ams]

I'm in Anarita too, near KEN. It must have been blowing from the north, as the front of the house (i.e. driveway, front door) was battered and the ground there and down the sides of the house are now covered in a carpet of bits of the trees surrounding the property. My bin and compost bin ended up far away and a water butt half full of water got blown over.

But my pool, on the south side, was fine. The lilo that was floating in it stayed there and I didn't have to scoop loads of leaves out of the pool, there were hardly any. The difference on the 2 sides of the house (only a bungalow) was incredible.

The noise of the hail hitting my front door was incredible. I was worried about the Shadeport sail I have covering the driveway and which I will later take down for winter, but it survived just fine.