Then we ask ourselves if climate change is real. These are never-before-seen natural phenomena. State governor Enrique Alfaro
Local media is reporting that a powerful rain and hailstorm wreaked havoc in Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque very early this morning.
Guadalajara is Mexico's second largest city with a population of over five million people. The city is culturally rich and one of Mexico’s colonial treasures. The rainy season is between June and September with afternoon storms common.
Jeebus! Look at this hail bomb.
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2017 storm on webcam, daytime view.
The Mazatlan Post reports:
According to local media, in the Atlas, Álamo Industrial, San Carlos, and Rancho Blanco colonies the accumulation of hail had a height of up to one and a half meters.
The central zone of Tlaquepaque was the one that had more emergency requests, due to the accumulation of hail
In view of the effects, the municipal government recommended safeguarding important documents, avoiding all contact with electric power cables, keeping warm and having the numbers of the emergency services on hand.
Other than local media, the storm has not been reported in major media markets.
This is insane. Just look at that eddy.
In a rapidly heating world hail is predicted to batter swaths of North America according to a 2017 Nature study.
Newsweek writes:
Golf-ball sized hail that can crack car windscreens, damage roofs and decimate crops are set to become the norm across parts of North America as a result of climate change.
That is according to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change that looked at how projected climate conditions over the coming decades will affect hailstorms, including their frequency and the size of the stones produced.
There has been much research into how anthropogenic climate change will impact storm frequency over North America, with findings indicating severe thunderstorms will become more common in the coming years. But how the hazardous features of these predicted storms, like the size of hail and tornadoes, will change is not well understood.
Hail poses a specific economic risk during storms, costing billions of dollars in damage every year. Small storms, with stones less than 2 centimeters wide, have the potential to cause severe damage to crops, especially if they hit when the plants are at vulnerable growth stages. Bigger storms, with stones between 2-4cm (0.8-1.5 inches), can cause significant damage.
With droughts and heavy rainfall, along with hailstorms that decimate fields of crops, our ability to feed ourselves will be unpredictable and complicated.
Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel provides an explanation of hail storms in 3D.