This happened so quickly and rather unexpected, I was just about to hang out towels and heard a crack of thunder and felt a few spots of rain as I stood at the washing line. I did a quick about turn and headed back indoors. Normally Canberra doesn’t flood, however the city and north side copped the worst of the rain. Generally speaking the north side of town does seem to cop the worst of storms.
January is often when serious weather issues occur. I remember the big hailstones in January 2020 where cars were destroyed in minutes in the city (Civic as we locals call the city centre). My husband just got his car under cover within minutes of this storm because he saw it coming. Some people are still waiting to have the damage repaired today, because of the vast amount of people affected and then lockdown came along in March 2020 at the tail end of the bushfires of November/December 2019 that carried on through January 2020.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/hail-storm-in-canberra-damages-cars-smashes-windows/11882472
From January 2020
