Tuesday, May 12, 2009

WATERSPOUTS AND HAIL STONES !



This is Mount Manganui, where we went at New Year! Covered in snow..
Well, the weather has turned unusual over here!
A storm has hit the Bay of Plenty with heavy rain, waterspouts and hail stones!
The wild weather has churned up massive offshore twisters and a Shopping Centre had to be evacuated!
There were five waterspouts, lasting about 10 minutes.


After the hailstorm the beach looked like it was coated in snow.The hail was the size of our 20c coins!




The storm was so bad that Papamoa Beach school was shut down, and the kids went snowboarding, on the beach!



One of the local farmers found four of his cows dead. He thinks they may have been struck by lighting.
The weather's gone wild!

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