Another Incredible Australian Storm. This Time, Sidney

Scary storm menaces rush hour traffic in Sydney, Australia
earlier this week. Photo by Mark Evans, or @evohood, via Twitter. 

It's the beginning of summer down in Australia, and it's prime time for severe weather, much like late spring and early summer is here in the United States.

It's been quite a year already for severe storms in Australia. I've already noted the incredible storm that hit Brisbane a couple weeks back.

Now it is Sydney's turn. 

They've been having a series of nasty storms this week, culminating in a super cell that moved over Sydney looking like an alien mother ship in a bad science fiction movie.

Here's a video of the photogenic but scary video approaching Sydney: