© Julie SouthFreak hailstorm in Queensland's North Burnett region
Central Queensland grain growers say a
freak hail storm that left a town looking like a "white Christmas" is unlikely to hurt the winter plant.
The storm passed through the Monto area of the North Burnett, west of Bundaberg, at about midday yesterday, blanketing a narrow path with pea-sized hail stones that resembled snow.
It continued on to parts of the Capricornia district and Gladstone, where larger hail stones were reported.
Julie South, from the Mulgildie Pub, said it was a day locals would remember.
"
Absolutely amazing, I don't think anybody in the town has seen this before, it's just like snow," she said.
"White Christmas coming early.
"There [was] just white 'snow' everywhere, everything was white, the fields were white, it was beautiful."
Chairman of the Monto Grain Cooperative, Lex Dow, said the storm was highly unusual.
'It was an unusual winter thunderstorm, a lot of thunder, it was two or three storms that sort of split up and went this way and that way," he said.
"There was a fair amount of hail just in a narrow strip about a kilometre wide that went across the from the west towards the east, across the Burnett Highway near Three Moon.
"It was nearly six inches thick on the bitumen for a kilometre or so, but it was only small sized hail, so I'm anticipating that any crops that were in its path, because they are still fairly young; only probably three, four, six inches high, that the damage will be minimum."
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