General News
14 November, 2026
Flashback: Monday November 14 1976
A storm that peppered the Horsham district on Thursday evening had Wimmera people proving that hailstones were really as big as they are said to be.
A storm that peppered the Horsham district on Thursday evening had Wimmera people proving that hailstones were really as big as they are said to be.
Gary Williams took a bag of hailstones from his home district of St Helens Plains to prove the point to his workmates at Beaurepaire’s Horsham.
Insurance agents received claims for crop damage on Friday.
Reports were of a band of hail between half and one mile wide, averaging a kilometre, producing heavy rain showers.
Toolondo farmer Don Miller reported hailstones to 5cm across, bouncing five feet from a concrete path.
He lost about 10 per cent of his oat and barley crops through hail.
He said the perfectly spherical hail ripped leaves and pencil-thick branches from trees and needed two hours to melt.