IT was a case of hail, fire and brimstone earlier this week (well, at least the hail part), when a thunderstorm hit the region on Tuesday afternoon, raining down hail up to the size of golf balls.
While many cars received minor, if any damage, some were not so lucky, particularly vehicles which were being driven at the time, with the speed of the car compounding the impact of the hail.
“My parked work car seems fine, but the car I was driving suffered quite a few dents. I tried to shelter at a service station but everyone was huddled in there tight and there was no room,” one motorist told the Independent.
Another resident said this was the worst hail storm she had seen in the five years since she moved here.
“The last time I experienced this I was living in Tasmania – it is not really what you expect in Port Macquarie,” she said.
Weather forecasters earlier this month warned that there would be up to a 30 percent increase in the number of thunderstorms on the Mid North Coast this summer and throughout SE Australia. This is because of warmer-than-normal sea-surface temperatures and a record spate of hot weather that looks set to continue through the summer.
