VIDEO: Cloud Tsunami Engulfs Entire City

While we all complain about the weather because it’s too hot or too cold or it rains too much or too little, we rarely are afraid of it. People talk about weather constantly because it really doesn’t mean all that much and it’s a safe and simple conversation topic.

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But every once in a while nature creates a weather phenomenon that is beyond the ordinary things and makes all stare in wonder and even fear for our lives.

In some places where the buildings are not that tough and safe, people actually fear the weather because it could mean that they might die or lose their house which would be a hard thing to recover from.

Still, we can’t stop and marvel at the beauty of it all because even when it’s menacing and potentially dangerous, nature is still unbelievably breath-taking.

According to dailytelegraph.com, incredible cloud formations off the coast of Sydney sent social media into overdrive as more wild storms swept across parts of Sydney, the Hunter and the South and Central Coasts.

Warning for severe thunderstorms producing large hailstones, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and damaging winds were initially only issued for the Hunter and Central Coast regions but forecasters became concerned when storms started to develop south of Sydney near Camden.

Bureau forecaster Mohammed Nadi told The Daily Telegraph the storms were popping up across the greater Sydney area and were short and sharp.

The apocalyptic shelf clouds that were seen up and down the coast were a result of the turbulent weather system hitting the city.

“That is created by a cold outflow from a thunderstorm lifting the moist air very abruptly, it is an outflow feature from a thunderstorm,” forecaster Christopher Webb said.

“When the rain from the thunderstorm comes vertically down it drags the air with it, it spreads horizontally and forms a gust front, you get the humid air being lifted abruptly from the outflow of the thunderstorm. We’re getting the occasional thunderstorm pop up – they will be quick short bursts with the possibility of large hail and damaging winds.”

Passengers at Sydney Airport, meanwhile, were forced to sit in a landed plane for almost an hour as a storm raged over Mascot. Travel photographer Andrew Peacock said his Jetstar flight was stranded on the tarmac for at least 50 minutes until it was safe for ground crews to tend to the plane.

The flight, which landed 25 minutes late at 1.35pm was among many backed up, he said.

“It was really just related to the fact that our flights on the Sunshine Coast took a while to get pulled into the gate… there was a major storm in the area and it became difficult for airport staff in terms of people landing because the thunderstorm was so close,” he said.

But Mr. Peacock said most people understood the importance of airport worker safety. A Sydney Airport spokeswoman said the decision to send out ground staff was at the discretion of individual carriers.