A freak summer hailstorm struck the Mexican city of Guadalajara early Sunday, burying cars and blanketing streets in a thick layer of ice.
Local newspaper El Informador reported that more than 1 meter (3.28 feet) of ice covered parts of the city. In addition to burying cars, the storm damaged 457 homes in Guadalajara and the district of Tlaquepaque.
Soldiers joined city workers in the cleanup effort.
In a tweet, which has been translated from Spanish, Enrique Alfaro Ramirez, governor of the state of Jalisco, explained that he had never seen anything like the hail storm before, noting that a hail layer of “tens of centimeters” blanketed parts of the city.
En varios puntos de la ciudad sucedió esto que nunca había visto: una capa de granizo de decenas de centímetros. pic.twitter.com/56ZTfaW2lE
— Enrique Alfaro (@EnriqueAlfaroR) June 30, 2019
In a video, Alfaro suggested that the freak hailstorm was caused by climate change. “This is a natural phenomenon that we had not seen before,” he added. In subsequent tweets, Alfaro showed the city’s cleanup operation.
En coordinación con el Ejército Mexicano y autoridades municipales de Guadalajara y Tlaquepaque, el Gobierno de Jalisco trabaja en la limpieza y remoción de granizo en la vía pública, así como en el apoyo a la ciudadanía que sufrió afectaciones en sus viviendas. pic.twitter.com/4q1zgPXys2
— Enrique Alfaro (@EnriqueAlfaroR) June 30, 2019
Citing Guadalajara Mayor Ismael del Toro, El Informador reported that 10 people had been treated for hypothermia following the storm.
Sky News reports that the storm followed days of warm and dry weather, with temperatures hitting 90 degrees.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/freak-summer-hailstorm-leaves-cars-buried
that will teach em not to mess with trump
damn global warming.