In large parts of Sydney, in the Australian state of New South Wales, on Saturday night, the electricity outages due to severe weather. That was accompanied by hailstones as large as golfballetjes, strong winds and abundant rainfall. According to the newspaper Sydney Morning Herald, more than 110,000 homes and businesses without power.

The rail traffic was severely disrupted by lightning strikes and fallen trees. The storm was the end of a day in extreme week in Sydney, where residents were faced with traffic chaos and the constant failure of flights. the

The north of the state of Queensland is still what to wait by the tropical cyclone, Owen, the east attracts to the region south of Cairns. The population is warned for flooding.