American Reacts to Scariest STORM Moments In Australia

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[rhiannonw]

As a Queenslander. I can confirm we get a lot of crazy storms. Lots of these 'extreme' ones you think are hurricanes (cyclones to us), honestly just look like a regular bad summer storm

[brae_t]

In Australia, we call hurricanes cyclones. They also spin the opposite way.

[gerardbryant]

In the Americas, it's a hurricane. In Asia, it's a typhoon. In Australia, it's a cyclone. Dust devils are willi-willis in Australia. A lot of the coastal storms along coastal Australia, from Queensland to Victoria, are generated by a weather phenomenon called "The East coast low".
If we have a fairly long drought, chances are there will be a massive dust storm somewhere. The Kiwis hate it, because they get all this Australian dust and sand covering their nice white, snowcapped mountains. It's the same with large bushfires, the smoke drifts over the Tasman Sea, and covers their nice, white, snowcapped mountains, again.

[Mirrorgirl]

I lived in Brisbane for four years and yes, I have experienced one of these "sideways" storms. They last only a short time, but boy they pack a punch. Roofs off and trees down, windscreens smashed...all in a days work for a Brizzy Storm.

[RaymondSynold]

I was a member of the SES (State Emergency Services) in Northern New South Wales for a while - we had some really bad storms. I have seen whole sheets of corrugated iron roofing embedded lengthways in the ground so you could only see a silvery zig-zag pattern on the ground where about an inch of metal was still sticking out. I saw a TV antenna shot through a tree like a spear. I was in the floodboat rescue crew and saw a 2 storey Maccas flooded to the point that the water was halfway up the 2nd storey - there were ducks inside eating all the floating burger buns. Helped out with some hailstorm damage where the average size hail stone was around a tennisball size. Since moving to Tasmania I have seen mini tornados on Mount Wellington, a lightning storm with green, blue, pink and yellow lightning, and so much more. It gets wild.

[grandmothergoose]

It's quite common in Australia for large trees to lose large branches in storms, sometimes they'll drop large branches even on a perfectly calm day. The reason for this is our eucalypts have an amazing ability that allows them to deal with excessively saline ground conditions that often happen during drought periods. The tree will push all the excess salts from the water it absorbs into one branch, and when that branch is no longer viable for the tree, it'll break and fall down. In order for this to work, eucalypt tree branches are more brittle than most other types of tree, so really strong winds will often rip off whole branches. It's common enough that a large tree branch that falls from a tree is called a widow-maker in some places.

[andrewhall]

Yeah, we have our fair share of storms here in Brisbane. Most of us love them…up to the point where they start damaging things. Also the elevated house you spoke of… that particular one was obviously a half finished restoration but the classic “Queenslander” type house is readily raised to accommodate an extra living space downstairs. It’s also fairly common to saw them in half (if needed) put them on the back of a truck and move them. One disappeared from the block two doors down from me about three weeks ago. There is actually a second hand house yard just north of Brisbane just like a second hand car yard.

[julie-annwhittaker]

The thing about severe storm in the tropical areas of Australia is that they are quite common. What most consider a terrifying storm is just a really hot, steamy day finally cooling off! And yes Brisbane does get a lot of severe storms. At least one or two big bangers a year, some seasons several.

[bshorrock]

When you have a hot day and see the clouds come over and they are green - that's usually when the hail hits... We usually get the warning from the Kookaburras down the street. When they go bananas, we get rain within 48 hours... You mightn't hear them for months, but when they go bonkers - the rains are coming...

[Craznar]

East coast Australian storms have a lot of vertical lift (do to the great dividing range) causing massively tall storms that have vertical rotation causing giant hail.

This is different to the US storms which develop on the plains have have huge horizontal circulation leading to tornados.

I'm from Brisbane - and yeah, those sort of storms are common in summer.

[xfute]

We get cyclones Ian, not hurricanes. We can have HUGE dust storms that start in Western Australia and travel right across to the east coast and sometimes even continue over to New Zealand. Usually before a hail storm arrives the sky and clouds will turn and shade of green, the darker the green the more ice is forming the worse the storms going to be. Queensland gets hit by almost all the cyclones because cyclones form in the tropics normally only. If you get a map of Australia and draw a horizontal line from Brisbane right across to Western Australia, pretty much everything on the coast above that line WILL get clobbered by cyclones at sometime every year. Far north Queensland, they measure their rain in meters of rain 3-6 mts of rain every year. Seeya Rob

[JB-vdbi]

The dust storm in 2009 could be seen from space. Some cities and towns were blacked out. Bloody wild watching that blow in.

[SirDilbere]

I remember many of those Brisbane storms. I was born there. In the 80's there was a storm and the hail was shown on the evening news. If it was not recorded no one would believe what fell that afternoon. The hail stones were the size of house bricks. Window glass ran out across the country as people were trying to repair their houses as well as the glass office towers in the city. The damage was unbelievable. It took months and for some more than a year to replace broken windows, walls, tiled roofs. Cars were destroyed and car sales yards had massive write offs. I moved to Toowoomba in 1998 and I was only here a short time before I experienced the rarest form of hail - Arrow Head. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would not believe it to be true. Hail, only 1 cm thick but triangular shaped like an arrow head. I've seen everything from sleet to brick sized hail in my lifetime. Queensland storms are the scariest things ever. And Toowoomba which sits 668m above sea level on a mountain range is weird. We're so high when storms come over the clouds don't raise up with the terrain. So I get to sit out many storms from the inside of them. The noise is deafening and you can actually hear the lightning as it cuts through the air. Freaky stuff. Thanks for your vids I watch every one. Love 'em. Cheers.

[kwityarbichen]

Raised houses are called Queenslanders. They were raised up to hopefully stop flooding and also in the heat it helps with air flow to cool it down

[rodneypayne]

3:04 -3:29ish Water Spouts are pretty common all over the Pacific not just Australia. When tropical storm fronts build enough energy to pick up the water but not enough to maintain the energy when they hit any type of land.
A workmate of mine was a 90 foot fishing boat crewman off Tasmania and says that it's par for the course out on the open ocean depending on the season. Squalls and spouts hit land and dissipate relatively quickly because the air pressure breaks up due to obstacles such as buildings and trees.
Those things in the desert are just the same as what you would call Dust Devils, just bigger and made up of dust the consistency of talcum powder that floats along and not a real danger because the wind speed isn't that high.

[xXSinForLifeXx]

6:25 During the flooding around my area there was snakes swimming in the water. In one case rescuers had left their boat to save someone and when they got back snakes had jumped in for safety.

And yes I also heard about spiders getting washed away in the waters aswell.

[KJxxoo]

Aww man, I miss tropical storms!! I live in Broken Hill, the capital of the outback. I moved here from QLD and miss the exhilaration of a good thunder storm!

[Gordon_L]

The house at 5:19 looks like it's in the process of being re-stumped either after being relocated or raised so it can be built in underneath, minimum 8' /2400mm high to be used as a dwelling downstairs .
Houses on short stumps are called lowset, tall stumps are called highset . Highset Queenslanders were built for air circulation in the warmer climate of Qld and were generally timber framed and weatherboard clad .

[therealdjflip]

Over the last couple of years when South Australia has had some weird weather events, we have actually had the odd tornado, and a I am down on the beach area, I even see the odd water spout

[politicallyincorrectpanda]

I’m currently hiding inside from a storm as I’m watching this! My lawn is now gone it’s just a lake outside 🇦🇺