Picture: via Higgins Storm Chasing/"Kim" “We had a thunderstorm that moved through Gympie this afternoon that I believe, did some damage ... but that’s unlikely to happen now,” he said.

So what happened was that thunderstorms ... It is what caused the storm around Carina Heights. It missed all our observations in the area but we did record a 76-kilometre wind gust in Archerfield.” ...

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for a storm spiraling in from the Atlantic, bringing gusts of up to 100 m.p ...