How's the Weather, Jim?

...we've got warmer drier air — it's very turbulent air — and it whips across the plains at quite high speeds and static electricity builds up. And so a lot of people notice they get shocks when they open their cars and things like that ... we found that that was the mechanism for causing health effects.

– Doctor Neil Cherry, on the cause and effects of Canterbury's nor'wester

I was just sucked clean into the fence in front of me on the road. The bike went hurtling away one way and I went spinning up into god knows where ... from where I was sucked into the fence to where I landed on my back was about 100 metres away.

– Laurie Coe recalls being hit by a tornado while on his quad bike