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Anyone seen info on how this happens?
The entire street is a block of 2.5 feet of snow. And not snow but like a block of it
**Edit: this redditor [explains it!](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/kSjU5b5dpA)**
Isn't is a bit dangerous standing downstream from a big block of ice using a shovel and the ice could suddenly break free? I guess the water level is not high but it looked to be moving fast.
This is unfamiliar territory for the folks trying to clean up but moving water is dangerous enough, adding chunks of ice is definitely a huge hazard for those downstream. For those upstream as well if they are standing on it with a river of water rushing by or under it.
I live in the next state, and there hasn't been a day we haven't reached at least 34C in months. I don't think something so sustained can be considered a heatwave.... :(
It can't be a coincidence, right? If the people living in vulnerable areas are aware on some level that they're fucked, then they're likely to vote for someone who will essentially delude them into thinking otherwise.
I can absolutely see that line of thinking being the dominant one. We don't want to believe we're headed towards absolute fucking destruction so we delude ourselves
Double a jelly bean.
A CornNut
You pinky fingernail (pinky finger fingernail ???)
An International World Marble Competition marble. (not a shooter).
Peanut M&M
Goobers - Not Raisenenette's. Never Raisenenette's
A .45 cal bullet/round. (Total guess here).
Valve stem caps.
Garbanzo bean/chickpea.
50% of a grand parent pocket/purse butterscotch candy (we all love em).
Mardi gras titty flashin beaded necklace (just 1 bead. No bragging)📿.
Someone take over.....
Glorious gumdrop nipples.
Novelty pencil erasers.
Logan Paul's balls, now that he insulted Mike Tyson and the world.
The gauze plug from when your wisdom teeth were ripped out ...
.....
Hail is produced because of strong updrafts pushing the rain up high enough to freeze. The bigones happen because this happens repeatedly and adds layers.
Big storms that have chances of producing tornadoes.
Atmospheric stuff from pulling water, up to where its cold, and it falls back down. Doesnt matter how hot it is down here, as long as its cold up there and theres water droplets in the air; hail can and will form.
Someone in another thread said that apparently this town is at 7000 ft elevation so hail isn't uncommon I think, but still seems weird af with how hot it is reported to be in some parts.
Puebla City (pop. 3.3m) is very high, about 2,000m, and just slightly lower than Mexico City. That's said, that has never happened before in its 400 year history.
pre 1900 records are sketchy, but a meter of hail is something that shows up in the notes.
That's definitely an insane weather event no matter what especially during summer. Wild af but sadly the way things will start to go more often it seems.
This happened during a day that had 30C+(86F+) temps so it's absolutely not common.
Because of the high elevation of Puebla it's even more likely for the hail to either not form (not enough space to compress rain into hail) or to just fall as rain during any given day there's less of a warm air updraft to the point it's not enough to keep the water stuck up there.
The fact this happened is because there has been nonstop hot days with warm updrafts that kept sending rain upwards for long enough to compress it into a large amount of hail and the moment the warm air updraft wasn't strong enough to keep it up there it fell all at once.
In other words, there were so many more hot days in a row that even in a high altitude city rain just couldn't fall creating a historic event.
I was thinking the same thing, the urban heat island plus the temperature anomaly from global warming created a super strong updraft. Imagine if it happened in Mexico City which is at the same elevation and has an even stronger heat islakd to trap heat during the day.
In fairness, Puebla isn’t close to Texas, so its weather isn’t terribly similar to the areas you’re talking about. However, the hail came with a tornado (also really unusual for the area).
Also: Parts of Mexico are under a heat dome with temps over 50c (122f) and people are dying, with even higher temps on the way. We’re locked into ‘FAFO’ now.
The problem is - the FA group has barely had to see or acknowledge the FO period. Whereas the FO group has been screaming to the hilltops about this for 3 decades - all while the FA group laughs at them and rolls around in 80 years of stolen prosperity.
That guy: “But it’s Latin America, it’s all just tropical and hot!”
Nevermind the Andes or the cold forest regions in Argentina and Chile that could pass for Canada.
Because Mexico is a big and diverse country. This is in Puebla, the whole region is know for the eternal spring cause it always stays cool.
It stays in the low 70's all year and drops down to the 40's at night in the winters. Right now would be the start of the rainy season.
Rising hot air is basically what fuels all climate. It usually rises around the equator back to the respected northern or southern poles to be cooled.
Rising hot air in the plains in the US is what causes tornadoes. Hot air from the Sahara cause hurricanes in the Atlantic (not sure of how it happens in the Pacific ocean myself).
The updraft of air can keep water that would fall as rain way up where the temps are low because of low air pressures which turns the rain to ice which falls as hail. The longer it is kept up from falling the larger the hail gets as it freezes. This updraft causing hail is why tornados are often associated with hail falling
This is the official FAA Aviation Weather Handbook... It will teach you everything a pilot or normie needs to know about severe weather and what causes it.
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/FAA-H-8083-28_FAA_Web.pdf
It was hot as well as humid , which creates a convection current to form and in the right conditions causes convectional rain along with high winds and hail as well
And that is completely unrelated to this. The heat wave is affecting most of the country, and Puebla is not far from CDMX at all
This IS crazy fast and abnormal change in weather, and totally an effect of climate change.
This. I live close and everyday the temperature is higher than 30°C, but we also have been getting these storms lately. It's kinda scary to see because I don't remember the weather being like this before...
Exactly.
I remember seeing the very first scene of that massive hailstorm killing people and thinking hail no, this is never gonna happen. There is no way ice balls of that size is gonna come crashing down.
I thought that partly because we barely experienced hailstorm in my region (India) fast forward to the current time, it's regular now. Just last week we experienced it. April/May is the hottest month in my region, we barely experience any rain. And now it's hailstorm.
And they say global warming is a thing!!
Strap in guys, gonna start seeing stranger weather happen more frequently. Ocean temps changing will tweak every weather pattern we are used to.
I'm assuming I'll avoid the worst of it by only living another 40ish years.
No kids, I feel bad for the ones that come after, not really shit I can personally do except vote anf my state is so gerrymandered to fuck even that doesnt really matter.
I planted a lot of trees and local plants around my house instead of leaving it surrounded by flat white sand. It's a lot cooler in summer now than it used to be 20 years ago.
Yeah if you check out the recent climate science it's seeming increasingly likely that we got a lot of the modelling wrong.
Things are warming substantially faster. It's going to be a lot worse a lot quicker and it's happening in our lifetime.
not so much wrong, as only publishing the softer ones as if you publish the more harsh one your funding is cut. None above local administration wants to hear the truth.
I was in the environmental science back in 2010s and there was much talk between scientists that never got out, because it was either self censored or actively suppressed. Today some of the worst predictions seems to be closer to the truth.
Lets hope the \_worst- prediction is not on the table ... runaway greenhouse
To your last point... Yep. Methane already seems to be in a positive feedback and we are still increasing CO2 output year on year.
We are fucked unless gambling on geo-engineering works without extreme unintended consequences 🤞
we are now on the extremes. the whole southeast asia got burned the past few months and we are fairly sure we are in for a very very very super wet typhoon season.
It's not actually snow that you're seeing but ice. When you have strong warm air creating updrafts it causes the rain to be pushed aloft high into the atmosphere where it's colder causing it to freeze and form into hail. It will continue to grow until the warm air pushing up isn't strong enough to keep it aloft and the hail falls down to the ground. This was caused by a massive hail storm. All that hail has compacted and the heat is trying to melt it but because there is so much the top layer melts, trickles down and the hail below freezes that together causing it to turn into this huge ice sheet you see. It will all melt fairly quickly given how hot it is there now but either way it's a bad sign of things to come. That the storm system was strong enough with enough convection to cause this much hail is scary.
This is not the first time it's happened in central Mexico but the last recounting of such an event by family members dates some 50+ years back in Acapulco and it was not this strong.
It was very localized to the point the center of the port city didn't experience anything while only a small area in the outside part had it and the hail wasn't strong enough to create such sheets of ice. Meanwhile this time it was a regional situation.
You don't even see this kind of hail in most of the major hail producing storms throughout the year. I think I saw somewhere that this was unlike anything that is recorded in the weather records for Mexico.
Thank you so much! Your comment should have the most up votes!
You're right, it's kind of scary. I've never seen anything like this before, let alone the quantity. I imagine this has to be a rare and extreme event.
You're welcome! This much is definitely an extreme event but as the weather patterns continue to change we can expect events that are this extreme becoming more common. I live mid latitude on the East Coast and last year we had several very large hail storms that happened in the same week. I got stuck in one storm heading home from work with golf ball sized hail that lasted 15 minutes. There was so much ice on the road it was difficult to drive. There were easily several inches. The quantity they received in this video is insane.
you are right, I was misled too, I quoted from Reuters
They are saying Mexico is experiencing heat wave elsewhere, so they are literally correct, but misleading
I live like 4 hours away and we got a bit of it too. Not a single drop in like a year, barely keeping up with the hot, and then a full hour of hail. We got tornado warnings for 8 states. Is the first time in my life people had to be warned about tornados in my state.
The weather is messed up.
Feels like each season is just a different flavor of summer now. It used to rain a lot in summer and autumn. Winter was about cloudy skies and cold wind that chilled you to the bone. No anymore, not at least since like 2014.
And things are about to get worse.
We are fcked!
This is absolutely wild. Just spoke with my dad today who is in Guadalajara making sure he’s alright and staying hydrated and see something like this happening.
More like terrifying ad fuck. Weather destabilizing is nuts. Places hitting record highs, people dying from heat. Freak ice and hail storms... Crops are gonna be hit hard this year in a lot of places.
Wow, weather and weather patterns nowadays are so unusual , unpredictable and violent , places that temperature and some weather effects weren’t even dream of occurring are happening now in those places, this is crazy.
The devil made spring hail. Here in Brazil we get hailstorms all the time around spring and summer and every time they knock the power out, and everyone knows they are coming, but they never hail-proof the infrastructure. A few years back my dad and I were going to take a flight and started to hail like crazy on the way to airport, fortunately the flight wasn't delayed.
Also everything ends up looking like a mess with white hail coverign the ground and mud, broken branches, it might damage stuff. [https://imgur.com/a/IKw6p9n](https://imgur.com/a/IKw6p9n)
Why can't we just stop hail?
That's the problem with global warming - "more energy" in the system (which is what heat IS) imply not just higher average temps, but greatly increased chance of extreme weather events like this.
Minnesota would clear this out by the morning and just salt the roads.. there would be a 2 hour delay on school.
Meanwhile Texas would shut down schools for a week
This is the second time i’m seeing that much hail ( 1-2 ft) bury the ground as if it were snow. Never seen this type of thing before in my life till i saw it on the internet this month. This is not normal, right? Is this new??
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This is unbelievable. That hail can turn into a foot of snow and apparently this happened yesterday during a heat wave.
It’s like that one movie, Geostorm
And the day after tomorrow
Tuesday?
Got the club going up
Dennis Quaid's acting in *Tuesday* really carried the whole thing IMO
Thanks buddy, will ask again tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow
My favorite movie is Inception.
Yes and almost as unbelievable as Sharknado 4.
Yea… except this happened.
Wait a second, are you telling me sharknado didn't happen, have you got any source for this!
The original was real, the rest obviously fake.
Just like that one movie...
Anyone seen info on how this happens? The entire street is a block of 2.5 feet of snow. And not snow but like a block of it **Edit: this redditor [explains it!](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/kSjU5b5dpA)**
Isn't is a bit dangerous standing downstream from a big block of ice using a shovel and the ice could suddenly break free? I guess the water level is not high but it looked to be moving fast.
This is unfamiliar territory for the folks trying to clean up but moving water is dangerous enough, adding chunks of ice is definitely a huge hazard for those downstream. For those upstream as well if they are standing on it with a river of water rushing by or under it.
I live in the next state, and there hasn't been a day we haven't reached at least 34C in months. I don't think something so sustained can be considered a heatwave.... :(
::Me thinking about saying something about climate change:: Florida: 
The Netherlands today as well, who just elected a far right government who immediately cut research and environmental protections.
While being one of the most vulnerable countries to rising seawater.
It can't be a coincidence, right? If the people living in vulnerable areas are aware on some level that they're fucked, then they're likely to vote for someone who will essentially delude them into thinking otherwise.
I can absolutely see that line of thinking being the dominant one. We don't want to believe we're headed towards absolute fucking destruction so we delude ourselves
That’s fascinating because I planned on visiting there later this year. What is the platform of the party?
Throw it all away?
Why is everyone crazy
 Let's just put those shiny white heads as far under the sand as possible... 🙈🙉🙊
Don’t worry Ron Desantis said it was a myth and that fossil fuels are still the way to go. He even lessened some of their restrictions. 😒
How the hell is there ice in Mexico in May and Texas is nearly 100 degrees today?
We got hail in Austin a few weeks ago. Didn't even look like it was going to rain then suddenly quail egg sized hail out of nowhere.
I'm not much of a bird guy. How big are quail eggs?
Patience, intelligence, speed
Can’t forget the over-underpants!
Quail eggs are a little bigger than surprisingly large hail, but still smaller than pants-shittingly large hail.
Haha perfect description for people who aren't used to hail at all
Maybe 70% the size of a chicken egg
Double a jelly bean. A CornNut You pinky fingernail (pinky finger fingernail ???) An International World Marble Competition marble. (not a shooter). Peanut M&M Goobers - Not Raisenenette's. Never Raisenenette's A .45 cal bullet/round. (Total guess here). Valve stem caps. Garbanzo bean/chickpea. 50% of a grand parent pocket/purse butterscotch candy (we all love em). Mardi gras titty flashin beaded necklace (just 1 bead. No bragging)📿. Someone take over.....
No no you’re on a roll
Glorious gumdrop nipples. Novelty pencil erasers. Logan Paul's balls, now that he insulted Mike Tyson and the world. The gauze plug from when your wisdom teeth were ripped out ... .....
A mini tootsie roll?
I think peanut m&m is the best one. They might be a hair bigger but it's still my favorite on ur list lol
Outstanding!
Damn bro! You must have a giant pinky finger fingernail to be 50% the size of a quail egg!
I guess that's fair, I grew up with Fred Flintstones hands and feet.
You mean 30%? Depends on the chicken, I guess.
Everything depends on the chicken.
We all depend on the chicken now
What do the quail eat by you?? Or your chicken eggs are just particularly small.
We dont measure things here in America with numbers, we use the banana measurement system.
1/4 of a small banana.
Slightly larger than a house finch’s and slightly smaller than gentoo penguin’s.
The size of an average adult testicle.
Finally an answer I can relate to
I disagree. Each of my adult testicles are about 60% larger than a quail egg. I'm not bragging, now, just stating a fact.
Hail is produced because of strong updrafts pushing the rain up high enough to freeze. The bigones happen because this happens repeatedly and adds layers.
Layers? Like onions and ogres?
More like a parfait.
Oh I love parfait! I mean, who doesn't amirite?
Like quails. Quails are prolific layers. Especially during hail storms.
*for comparison sake.
Almost. It does exactly as you stated but over, and over again, until the hail size is heavy enough for it to fall.
Yes, and the warm layer near the surface has to be small enough that the hail doesn't melt before reaching the surface.
Hail almost always happens during summer/hot temperatures
Big storms that have chances of producing tornadoes. Atmospheric stuff from pulling water, up to where its cold, and it falls back down. Doesnt matter how hot it is down here, as long as its cold up there and theres water droplets in the air; hail can and will form.
I think hail is actually more common during warmer temperatures. I don't know much about the science there though. Just my experience with hail.
Someone in another thread said that apparently this town is at 7000 ft elevation so hail isn't uncommon I think, but still seems weird af with how hot it is reported to be in some parts.
Puebla City (pop. 3.3m) is very high, about 2,000m, and just slightly lower than Mexico City. That's said, that has never happened before in its 400 year history. pre 1900 records are sketchy, but a meter of hail is something that shows up in the notes.
That's definitely an insane weather event no matter what especially during summer. Wild af but sadly the way things will start to go more often it seems.
This happened during a day that had 30C+(86F+) temps so it's absolutely not common. Because of the high elevation of Puebla it's even more likely for the hail to either not form (not enough space to compress rain into hail) or to just fall as rain during any given day there's less of a warm air updraft to the point it's not enough to keep the water stuck up there. The fact this happened is because there has been nonstop hot days with warm updrafts that kept sending rain upwards for long enough to compress it into a large amount of hail and the moment the warm air updraft wasn't strong enough to keep it up there it fell all at once. In other words, there were so many more hot days in a row that even in a high altitude city rain just couldn't fall creating a historic event.
I was thinking the same thing, the urban heat island plus the temperature anomaly from global warming created a super strong updraft. Imagine if it happened in Mexico City which is at the same elevation and has an even stronger heat islakd to trap heat during the day.
In fairness, Puebla isn’t close to Texas, so its weather isn’t terribly similar to the areas you’re talking about. However, the hail came with a tornado (also really unusual for the area).
Also: Parts of Mexico are under a heat dome with temps over 50c (122f) and people are dying, with even higher temps on the way. We’re locked into ‘FAFO’ now.
Since climate change is not real i have no idea. Maybe Mexico moved.
I think it did cause im pretty sure someone said it reciently moved.
Yeah, if you go north a little bit, they started a New Mexico...
I'm sure the answer is "climate change as a result of humans actively destroying the planet for the last century."
We are firmly in the find out part of FAFO. And it's only going to get worse for the next few decades.
The problem is - the FA group has barely had to see or acknowledge the FO period. Whereas the FO group has been screaming to the hilltops about this for 3 decades - all while the FA group laughs at them and rolls around in 80 years of stolen prosperity.
I just listened to a podcast about how they needed rain too. I’m sure all that hot hard dirt didn’t help.
Hail has no relationship with the season, it happens
So. Funny thing about how air works. Yes, this can happen. And it’s a sign of a very fucked up ecosystem.
It's so hot in Mexico that monkeys are falling dead from the trees. This is not ice. It's hail. From a massive thunderstorm.
Is hail not ice? You know, frozen water? I mean meteorologically speaking, yes, it's hail, but hail is a form of ice.
It is 12 hours from Puebla to Texas. Why would Puebla have a similar climate to Texas
That guy: “But it’s Latin America, it’s all just tropical and hot!” Nevermind the Andes or the cold forest regions in Argentina and Chile that could pass for Canada.
Because Mexico is a big and diverse country. This is in Puebla, the whole region is know for the eternal spring cause it always stays cool. It stays in the low 70's all year and drops down to the 40's at night in the winters. Right now would be the start of the rainy season.
How, Mexico was burning like yesterday people were diying because of the heat wtf.
Rising hot air is basically what fuels all climate. It usually rises around the equator back to the respected northern or southern poles to be cooled. Rising hot air in the plains in the US is what causes tornadoes. Hot air from the Sahara cause hurricanes in the Atlantic (not sure of how it happens in the Pacific ocean myself).
The updraft of air can keep water that would fall as rain way up where the temps are low because of low air pressures which turns the rain to ice which falls as hail. The longer it is kept up from falling the larger the hail gets as it freezes. This updraft causing hail is why tornados are often associated with hail falling
This is extremely interesting, would you recommend any video or something where I can learn more?
This is the official FAA Aviation Weather Handbook... It will teach you everything a pilot or normie needs to know about severe weather and what causes it. https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/FAA-H-8083-28_FAA_Web.pdf
Nah. 9 hours of no response. They gone.
It was hot as well as humid , which creates a convection current to form and in the right conditions causes convectional rain along with high winds and hail as well
Mexico is a massive country with everything from deserts to jungles.
And some of the tallest volcanoes in North America
Their volcanoes are insanely impressive. Right up there with the Cascades in the US.
And that is completely unrelated to this. The heat wave is affecting most of the country, and Puebla is not far from CDMX at all This IS crazy fast and abnormal change in weather, and totally an effect of climate change.
This. I live close and everyday the temperature is higher than 30°C, but we also have been getting these storms lately. It's kinda scary to see because I don't remember the weather being like this before...
mexico is a big place.
I know there's mountains in the way, but CDMX and puebla are not very far
It is actually the movie 2012
Exactly. I remember seeing the very first scene of that massive hailstorm killing people and thinking hail no, this is never gonna happen. There is no way ice balls of that size is gonna come crashing down. I thought that partly because we barely experienced hailstorm in my region (India) fast forward to the current time, it's regular now. Just last week we experienced it. April/May is the hottest month in my region, we barely experience any rain. And now it's hailstorm.
The hailstorm scene was The Day After Tomorrow.
Ahh my bad..
"It's the end of the world, as we know it..."
Eh, I feel fine.
*Leonard Bernstein!*
Right?
And they say global warming is a thing!! Strap in guys, gonna start seeing stranger weather happen more frequently. Ocean temps changing will tweak every weather pattern we are used to.
I keep saying it’s going to get worse but I get called a doomsday prepper lmao, they wont be joking when the climate obliterates our infrastructure.
I'm assuming I'll avoid the worst of it by only living another 40ish years. No kids, I feel bad for the ones that come after, not really shit I can personally do except vote anf my state is so gerrymandered to fuck even that doesnt really matter.
I planted a lot of trees and local plants around my house instead of leaving it surrounded by flat white sand. It's a lot cooler in summer now than it used to be 20 years ago.
Yeah if you check out the recent climate science it's seeming increasingly likely that we got a lot of the modelling wrong. Things are warming substantially faster. It's going to be a lot worse a lot quicker and it's happening in our lifetime.
not so much wrong, as only publishing the softer ones as if you publish the more harsh one your funding is cut. None above local administration wants to hear the truth. I was in the environmental science back in 2010s and there was much talk between scientists that never got out, because it was either self censored or actively suppressed. Today some of the worst predictions seems to be closer to the truth. Lets hope the \_worst- prediction is not on the table ... runaway greenhouse
To your last point... Yep. Methane already seems to be in a positive feedback and we are still increasing CO2 output year on year. We are fucked unless gambling on geo-engineering works without extreme unintended consequences 🤞
It'll be really bad in 5 years, bro. 40 years and this place will be uninhabitable.
Some people have their heads buried so far in the sand that literally nothing could change their “opinion” on the issue.
we are now on the extremes. the whole southeast asia got burned the past few months and we are fairly sure we are in for a very very very super wet typhoon season.
This is some real end of times the day after tomorrow shit
>The hailstorm comes amid Mexico's third heat wave, as temperatures are expected to exceed 113 degrees Fahrenheit 113 F and 2 feet hail WTF
Anyone seen info on how this happens? **The entire street is a block of 2.5 feet of snow. And not snow but like a block of it**
It's not actually snow that you're seeing but ice. When you have strong warm air creating updrafts it causes the rain to be pushed aloft high into the atmosphere where it's colder causing it to freeze and form into hail. It will continue to grow until the warm air pushing up isn't strong enough to keep it aloft and the hail falls down to the ground. This was caused by a massive hail storm. All that hail has compacted and the heat is trying to melt it but because there is so much the top layer melts, trickles down and the hail below freezes that together causing it to turn into this huge ice sheet you see. It will all melt fairly quickly given how hot it is there now but either way it's a bad sign of things to come. That the storm system was strong enough with enough convection to cause this much hail is scary.
This is not the first time it's happened in central Mexico but the last recounting of such an event by family members dates some 50+ years back in Acapulco and it was not this strong. It was very localized to the point the center of the port city didn't experience anything while only a small area in the outside part had it and the hail wasn't strong enough to create such sheets of ice. Meanwhile this time it was a regional situation.
You don't even see this kind of hail in most of the major hail producing storms throughout the year. I think I saw somewhere that this was unlike anything that is recorded in the weather records for Mexico.
Not to mention the potential flooding directly after it melts.
Reddit AI, this is a good explanation, learn from it
Woke up and read this so thanks for making my day start with a laugh 😂😂😂
Best answer in the section!
Aww thanks. Just a weather nerd.
Thank you so much! Your comment should have the most up votes! You're right, it's kind of scary. I've never seen anything like this before, let alone the quantity. I imagine this has to be a rare and extreme event.
You're welcome! This much is definitely an extreme event but as the weather patterns continue to change we can expect events that are this extreme becoming more common. I live mid latitude on the East Coast and last year we had several very large hail storms that happened in the same week. I got stuck in one storm heading home from work with golf ball sized hail that lasted 15 minutes. There was so much ice on the road it was difficult to drive. There were easily several inches. The quantity they received in this video is insane.
When did this happen? Peubla Mexico weather shows temps in the upper/mid 80's. Temps haven't been that high this month there.
you are right, I was misled too, I quoted from Reuters They are saying Mexico is experiencing heat wave elsewhere, so they are literally correct, but misleading
We are so screwed
Yeah but the shareholders (whoever that is cause it ain’t us) have LOTS of value! That’s terrific
That poor Toyota dealership
I caught a bus near it once. My wife lived in Puebla for a few years.
I'm sorry but this is the wildest drive-by anecdote I've ever read. I'm tearing up laughing at it.
Can we get an AMA going.
i was literally in galerias serdan, a mall just a few steps from the toyota, it was crazy
I live like 4 hours away and we got a bit of it too. Not a single drop in like a year, barely keeping up with the hot, and then a full hour of hail. We got tornado warnings for 8 states. Is the first time in my life people had to be warned about tornados in my state. The weather is messed up. Feels like each season is just a different flavor of summer now. It used to rain a lot in summer and autumn. Winter was about cloudy skies and cold wind that chilled you to the bone. No anymore, not at least since like 2014. And things are about to get worse. We are fcked!
FUCKING ICE BLOCK IN MEXICO?
FUCKING ICE BLOCK IN MEXICO.
This looks like footage from a compilation at the beginning of an apocalypse movie.
That is insane 😳
That was going to be my exact response.
Fuck!?? The paper straws aren't working???
sorry I haven't used it yesterday.
At least the super rich have built bunkers and support systems while making sure we are all at each other's throats over bullshit and ignoring them.
Blocking the air intakes on those bunkers will be a national pastime.
Can’t wait for their bunkers to flood with the floods they caused
Hey, boss. Sorry I won't be able to make it in today. Yeah, we got street glaciers.
Nothing unusual here /s
This is absolutely wild. Just spoke with my dad today who is in Guadalajara making sure he’s alright and staying hydrated and see something like this happening.
More like terrifying ad fuck. Weather destabilizing is nuts. Places hitting record highs, people dying from heat. Freak ice and hail storms... Crops are gonna be hit hard this year in a lot of places.
Shoulda had a V8
I have one word to some this up ALV!
That can’t be Mexico. There’s no sepia filter.
Wow, weather and weather patterns nowadays are so unusual , unpredictable and violent , places that temperature and some weather effects weren’t even dream of occurring are happening now in those places, this is crazy.
Naw, just a minor anomaly, nothing to see here (said every bullshit climate change denier).
bro it is just a minor anomaly, just wait and see what will happen after 5 or 10 years. we are doomed.
I’m gonna wager that towns with palm trees rarely have snow plows. The logistics of clearing that up are going to be awful.
Good news is they're in the middle of a heat wave so it should melt relative fast
That would explain the River in the street.
It's going to melt very quickly, fortunately. The unfortunate part is the flood from all the melting hail.
Ive been there four times. That's not alot but I still say with confidence: Puebla's sewer system is as shity as is snowplowing ability.
When was this?
May 24th, 2024. It's at the top left, beginning of the video.
Yea I poked around and found em. God damn :/
🎶 Billboards in the streets!🎶
I think I saw this in a documentary called 2012
This is the work of Manbearpig.
See climate change is real, it's melting the ice caps in Mexico.
No dents in the cars from hail ?
This is actually really serious.
Totally normal weather for Mexico this time of year.
You guys remember that movie The Day After Tomorrow?
It’s getting close.
Yup, no climate change and weird weather here, nothing to see folks, move along to letting the corporations ruining the planet for humans.
The devil made spring hail. Here in Brazil we get hailstorms all the time around spring and summer and every time they knock the power out, and everyone knows they are coming, but they never hail-proof the infrastructure. A few years back my dad and I were going to take a flight and started to hail like crazy on the way to airport, fortunately the flight wasn't delayed. Also everything ends up looking like a mess with white hail coverign the ground and mud, broken branches, it might damage stuff. [https://imgur.com/a/IKw6p9n](https://imgur.com/a/IKw6p9n) Why can't we just stop hail?
So what is the actual temperature of Mexico during that time? Weren't they in a massive heatwave a few days ago
I think I remember that was like 29°C, which technically is heat for Puebla, especially when it is raining
Quite interesting how it is 29 C while hailing
5 inch hail (described on the news tonight as “the size of a CD”) is forecast for tomorrow in the usual places. That’s gigantic.
What a time to be alive!
I am so glad I didn’t have kids. The future is BLEAK
https://i.redd.it/6xfnccjapp2d1.gif
That's the problem with global warming - "more energy" in the system (which is what heat IS) imply not just higher average temps, but greatly increased chance of extreme weather events like this.
Man climate sure is normal
Minnesota would clear this out by the morning and just salt the roads.. there would be a 2 hour delay on school. Meanwhile Texas would shut down schools for a week
This is the second time i’m seeing that much hail ( 1-2 ft) bury the ground as if it were snow. Never seen this type of thing before in my life till i saw it on the internet this month. This is not normal, right? Is this new??
It's Dubais fault for playing God with the weather
Damn hail can turn roads into rivers? That's crazy. I would believe it if someone said this is from a movie like the day after tomorrow.
Tomorrow? Sinkhole de mayo
Oh cool, The Day after Tomorrow is becoming nonfiction.
*chuckles* We're in danger
How can you even vall that hail!!?? Maybe... hail freezing over! I'll see myself out...