Residents in Guangzhou’s Baiyun District were treated to a small hailstorm on April 21 – a meteorological surprise likely tied to that crazy thunderstorm that virtually blacked out the sky.
Photographs quickly began circulating online that showed people posing with what look like half-melted ice cubes.
The hail fell around 2pm yesterday and came in the midst of a storm that dumped just under 45 millimeters of water in the span of a few hours. A Tencent News report featured pictures shared by Guangzhou citizens near Baiyun Mountain that make the hill look like Mordor's Mount Doom in The Return of the King.
Although common sense would dictate ice in such scorching summer
temperatures is unlikely, it turns out hail in the spring and summer is actually
not all that strange. According to The Weather Network,
hail is common during the summer, as hot surface temperatures create
conditions for large thunderstorms and upper atmosphere temperatures
cold enough to support ice.
[Images via Tencent News]
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