For at least the sixth time in as many weeks, parts of south-east Queensland have been lashed by hailstones causing widespread destruction to property and vehicles. On Monday, giant 14-centimetre hailstones were recorded in Chandler, in Brisbane’s south-east, while 11-centimetre stones fell on the city’s bayside. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) classifies giant hail as stones with a diameter larger than 5 centimetres. And while residents of the country’s most natural disaster-prone state are no strangers to wild weather, the spate of hailstorms has many questioning if it’s going to become a more regular occurrence.
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