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Australia is now being hit by fire and ice.

Wild weather swept through a swath of the wildfire-battered country in recent days — with golf ball-size hail pelting several cities.

Hailstorms in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra on Sunday and Monday damaged homes, businesses and vehicles — with photos showing car windows shattered by massive balls of ice.

Stunning images from outside the country’s Parliament published by the Canberra Times show the lawn covered in a snow-like blanket of hail.

At least two people in the city were injured in the summer storm, which also brought down trees, caused flash flooding and left more than 3,000 homes without power, Australia’s ABC reported.

The city’s emergency services received a record-setting 1,300 calls for help — as wind gusts reached about 52 miles per hour, according to the report.

Meanwhile, on Sunday night, a fast-moving dust storm swept through the drought-stricken New South Wales towns of Dubbo, Broken Hill, Nyngan and Parkes.

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Photos show plumes of rust-colored dust encroaching on scorched, barren terrain.

Wind gusts in Dubbo reached about 66 miles per hour by 7:45 p.m., according to the ABC.

“The dust storm was moving fast and was so thick that it went completely dark, [resulting in] zero visibility in less than a minute,” local resident Jenny Duggan told the outlet.

The country’s fires, which began back in September, have scorched around 46 million acres (about 1.3 times the size of New York state), killing 29 people and a billion animals, according to reports.

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