Note: This post was recovered from the Sh.org archive.Username: SkydogDate: 2019-12-29 16:26:25Reaction Score: 2
Freak hailstorm dumps up to 5 feet of ice on Guadalajara, Mexico
July 1, 2019, Tamar Lapin, New York Post
Residents of Mexico’s second-largest city woke up in shock Sunday to find that nearly 5 feet of hail had accumulated in some areas, trapping cars and damaging hundreds of homes.
“I’ve never seen such scenes in Guadalajara,” Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro told Agence France-Presse. “These are never-before-seen natural phenomenons. It’s incredible.”
Hail usually occurs during thunderstorms when updrafts carry warm, moist air above the freezing level, condensing it. A hailstone grows as additional water freezes onto it, and eventually becomes too heavy and falls to the ground.
In Guadalajara, which has temperatures nearing 90 in June, more moisture is available, contributing to hailstorms.
The city is situated at 5,000 feet above sea level, and “higher elevation means you are closer to the freezing level, so it’s more common to see hail,” said Accuweather meteorologist James Andrews.
“What’s special about this, is the intensity of the storm and the huge amount of hail that it brought,” he said. “It’s staggering.”
In Sunday’s case, the storm occurred in the early morning, when it was about 60 degrees, and the hail core sat above the same spot for a significant amount of time, Andrews said.
“If you have intense hail falling along with rain and it’s happening in the same place for an extended length of time, you’re going to get tremendous runoff.”
A combination of water and hail moved downslope, because of the local topography, and obstacles, like buildings, likely blocked the flow of hail, allowing more ice to accumulate on top.
“Hail depth from the storm [alone] couldn’t have been that strong,” Andrews said. “That great depth could be accounted for that the hail was running off street like in a flash flood and accumulated in a low spot.”
“It may have just been a freaky coincidence of the local layout,” Andrews said.
SD Comment: Another recent (this past summer) example of an extreme weather event that one would think the mainstream news would be tickled pink to shove down our throats. But not so much - as it doesn’t really fit the GW narrative.
While the story was picked up by some major news outlets at the time (NY Post / CBS) it wasn’t a major story and nobody I know was aware of it until I brought it up.
This is another pickup from Mia’s New Pair of Glasses free offerings on YT - the connection being it’s another sign the Electromagnetic Plasma Changeover Event / next reset cycle is expected in the not too distant future.
Fans of her partner Brian Austin Lambert’s EMPCOE series, Spacebusters Comets and Cataclysms series, Zeitgeist, the NORB theory and probably most people on SH - know the only time the event can happen is during the winter solstice - as the Sun will not begin to rise again on the third day/Christmas. So at least it’s safe to say that we have another year on our hands at this point!
