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Severe weather in Western Australia's Harvey as hail like 'bullets' lash town​

17 hours ago​

By Ezra Kaye and Jacqueline Lynch​

Residents in the town of Harvey woke to the sound of huge hailstones crashing overhead, as the region was lashed with two cold fronts over the weekend.

Bee Brislin, who lives in Harvey, 139 kilometres south of Perth, said her patio was smashed with stones thicker than her fingers.

"The kids woke up thinking the windows were cracking open because the hail was so loud. It was incredible," she said.

"I went outside and our patio looks like there has been bullets rained through it."

Ms Brislin said some other residents were pelted with hail "the size of golf balls", which had caused significant car damage and covered the town in a sheet of ice.

"It looked like it had been snowing … it was surreal," she said.

It was part of the wild weather experienced across Australia over the weekend, with NSW experiencing its deepest snow in 20 years and parts of Queensland recording below-average temperatures and light snowfalls.

Historical coincidence​

The hailstorm at Harvey on Sunday coincided with the 61st anniversary of an extreme downpour that forced the town to evacuate.

On August 3, 1964, the town was evacuated due to fear that the Harvey Weir would collapse as a result of an immense downpour.

Fearing the worst, police officers knocked on the doors of homes and directed them to the Harvey Golf Club and the high school to take shelter.

Residents were able to return to their homes a few days later when the storm had passed.

Longtime Harvey resident Graham Hough was five years old at the time.

"They [his parents] heard this ute go flying up the road with lights and sirens going. This bloke's come running out [saying] 'evacuate, evacuate. It's a national emergency,'" Mr Hough said.

They got the kids, put us in a station wagon. Dad wasn't going to leave without his cattle dog, so we had to get the dog in and the cats and everything."

Ms Brislin said the coincidence of the latest storm falling on the same day as the evacuation was the "gossip of the town".