The day started off seemingly fine - warm with the promise of rain and some possible hail...
We started eating and general merry making... As with all Christmas dinners we were well into the afternoon by the time we got to the pudding...
By the time it took to serve the pudding and eat it - this weather was already on us... One of my daughter's friends who had had Christmas lunch with us and had left just after pudding was caught in the deluge as she approached the city - her car was battered with hailstones the size of golf balls - she said she was still shaking when she got home...
I stood outside taking these - the clouds were so low - it seemed you could almost reach up and touch them...
This photo doesn't show how fast these clouds were travelling and just how swirling and menacing they were...We could tell that somewhere not too far away was really feeling the brunt of this storm...
A little while after this was taken it bucketed down - soaking rain - with large hail - our gutters overflowed and the garden was saturated... I think it rained and thundered for the best part of five hours before it came to a complete stop...We were lucky and very thankful - I have since learnt that others were not so fortunate...
Another Christmas Day in Melbourne...
Until later, take care...
Sharon x x
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