Later in the day hailstones as big as cricket balls pelted parts of New South Wales.
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Whether it is the unimaginable cloud movement, hailstorms, hailstones, or lightning and thunder, the storm structures are fearless.
Suddenly, the sky darkened, the heaven opened and all that could be seen and heard was sleet, driving rain and the drumming of hailstones.
The painting shows the two mythic Pythons and the stripes of the Zebra Finch. Also shown are "Kunatja", white hot mythic hailstones.
The weather, too, could throw tantrums of biblical ferocity. Once, I found myself in a blizzard of hailstones the size of mothballs, and then - a few hours later - summer was restored.
A blonde was driving home one night and got caught in the middle of a real bad hail storm. With hailstones as big as golf balls, her car got dented up pretty badly.
And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.
