Add in the damage caused by yesterday's storms and I imagine the insurance bill from the weekend will be very high. Many homes had their rooftop solar panels damaged and windows broken from the giant hail.


From an article on the ABC website this morning about the damage caused by Saturdays storms:


In Clifton, to Toowoomba's south, residents on Sunday morning assessed the damage to their homes and gardens from "bullet-like" hail.





Some of the windows at Karen Finnie's home were smashed when the hail hit, sending glass flying around her home.

"They were quite large hail[stones] ... between ping pong ball to tennis ball-sized, depending," she explained. "It was coming in very fast and just started going through the windows."


The town of Esk was struck particularly hard, with house after house sustaining serious damage to rooftop solar panels.


Rooftop solar panels in the town of Esk, north-west of Brisbane, were smashed to pieces on Saturday. (ABC News)


Esk Caravan Park general manager Emily Willoughby said the storm brought the worst hail she had ever seen in the town.

"We're still reeling," she told ABC Radio Brisbane. Skylights and windows were smashed at the caravan park.

"Our park itself was absolutely decimated with the hail and the leaf matter ... it looks like we've got about five tonnes of leaf matter to clean up today."

Ms Willoughby said the park had also sustained structural damage and some guests' cars and caravans had been damaged.

"Watching the hail bounce a metre-and-a-half off the ground, and coming up and still hitting things was a first," she said.


Queensland SES state operations director Glenn Alderton said the storms, which the Bureau of Meteorology categorised as "widespread", had managed to "punch well above [their] weight". More than 80 per cent of all requests for assistance were for damaged or leaking roofs. "Large hail, lots of damage to windows and roofs … lots of trees down," Mr Alderton said.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, speaking to reporters in Mackay on Sunday afternoon, said it was too soon to know how much the storm damage would total.


Source: https://www.abc.net.au/n...ter-giant-hail/105962090


BOMs forecast for today for the Brisbane area includes the possibility of a thunderstorm:





And to verify that a storm is a possibility today the storm bird (Eastern Koel) in our front yard is very busy singing it's storm warning to us this morning