Two severe tropical cyclones—each the equivalent of a category three hurricane—are tearing through coastal sections of Australia this morning. The first cyclone made landfall on the country's north coast on Friday morning, while a second more intense cyclone swirls just off the coast of Queensland, north of Brisbane.

Anthea Cannon, a writer for the Geelong Advertiser — a newspaper for the eponymous city of 200,000 on Australia's southeastern coast — wrote an incredibly polite takedown of television weather yesterday after she encountered a rude broadcast meteorologist from her local news station.

An intimidating looking thunderstorm rolled across Sydney, Australia yesterday afternoon, bringing with it flooding rainfall and intense lightning according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.