Hail as big as plums...!

yet more evidence of the increasing severity of storms likely related to the increasing speed of global climate change...



Hail in Buenos Aires

i was chatting online with a friend in buenos aires last night and he was telling me about the size of some of those hailstones... it must have been some storm...!

An unusually long hailstorm hit Buenos Aires City with full force yesterday, battering the city with hailstones as big as plums that injured 14 people and caused traffic havoc. Numerous vehicles pulled over to the sides of roads and freeways as the strong storm and heavy fog fell over the city, overflowing mains, breaking windows and denting cars.

Subway and train services were cancelled for well past the end of the 20-minute mid-afternoon storm. Travellers were left to catch slow-moving buses and taxis or to walk through the puddles and stream-like roads once the rain and hail subsided. The Health Ministry reported that most of the hail victims had been hit on the head.

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