Extreme
storm k**cks out
power to
entirety of
South Australia
A swirling, intense low pressure system spawned severe thunderstorms that took out the state of
South Australia's entire
power grid on Wednesday local time.
As of Thursday, the city of Adelaide and most of the state still lacked power, as more showers and thunderstorms, many of them bearing damaging winds, worked their way across the Adelaide area once again. Adelaide has a population of about 1.2 million.
Australian media are calling the
storm among the worst in at least a half-century, if **t longer.*
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The low pressure system responsible for the blackout resembles a comma on satellite imagery, a textbook shape for intense **n-tropical
storm systems.*
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