Tennis ball-size hailstones & 6,000 lightning strikes pummel Australia

Australia’s east coast has been blitzed with a barrage of intense weather phenomena, including more than 6,000 lightning strikes and hailstones the size of tennis balls. The freak conditions struck the coast of Queensland earlier this week, prompting Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology to issue a series of “severe” weather warnings. Electricity supply company

Energex recorded more than 6,000 ground strikes of lightning on Wednesday alone and more than 3,900 properties losing power. The severe weather has now gone on for two days. On Wednesday a woman was struck by lightning and a teenager was hit by a falling tree, ABC News reports. READ MORE