Guadalajara ’s street became river concisely over the weekend . A sinewy storm dumped pelting and hail over the central Mexico city , and when the slurry finally settled , parts of it were buried up to five foot deep in hail .

The scenes on Sunday and Monday as the city ’s work crews dug out looked like one that ordinarily come about after a blizzard , salve for the terra cotta roof and palm tree Tree as a backdrop . Cars were encased and upended in a ocean of blanched , trees limb were snapped in half , and citizens were pressure to bike , walk , or otherwise navigate hail encased roadway and sidewalks .

fit in tothe BBC , 200 homes were damage and dozens of vehicle were washed away in the city and suburbs , which also got rocked by the violent storm .

Photo: Governor Enrique Alfaro (Twitter)

The Mexican conditions servicewarnedover the weekend that “ strong rain ” would arrive at Guadalajara and the land of Jalisco as a whole . While Jalisco is no stranger to crazy summertime conditions , the uttermost nature of this hailstorm stands out . Temperatures are expected to top out in the 80s for the balance of the workweek , melting out the thick flatness of frozen hurriedness with storms this afternoon hastening the melt and potentially leave to localized flooding .

WOW ! ! ! Extraordinary#hailaccumulations in Guadalajara,#Mexicothis sunup 30th of June … . Video by 📸 Mike Colima IG#severeweather#ExtremeWeather#worldwidepic.twitter.com / vleNl9uk4j

— WEATHER/ METEO WORLD ( @StormchaserUKEU)June 30 , 2019

“ I ’ve never check such scenes in Guadalajara , ” said Enrique Alfaro , the state ’s regulator , according to Al - Jazeera .

He went on to tie the event to climate variety , though there ’s not a lot of evidence for what will happen to hail in a changing climate let alone in Jalisco . That said , uttermost downfall event are becoming more common as the planet heats up . The warmer the atmosphere , the more water it can bear and finally rain ( or perhaps herald ) down . Conditions that can engender severe conditions are alsolikely to increasein a warming world . Whether this fussy hailstorm is a sign of clime variety is tbd , but regardless , it ’s probably a good musical theme to train for more intense precipitation now and into the future .

Luego de una inusual granizada en distintas colonias del Área Metropolitana de Guadalajara , principalmente en Rancho Blanco y en la Zona Industrial , personal de Protección Civil Jalisco atendió la situación desde la madrugada.pic.twitter.com/EZ0XQhhIW6

— Enrique Alfaro ( @EnriqueAlfaroR)June 30 , 2019

The timing lines up with Jalisco ’s besotted season , which starts in June thanks the migration of a band of thunderstorms that encircles the world live as the Intertropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ . It wobbles north and in the south over the course the twelvemonth , finding its style over the region for the summertime where it can let loose some seriously severe weather condition .

Hailstorms can become part of that severe weather when warm air rise and pulls up tiny water droplets with it . As those droplet climb high into the frigid aura , they can become — and I rely this is the actual technical term — supercool water supply droplets . Eventually they block and start to break down downwards before getting sucked back above the freezing line of reasoning in the clouds . That fuses all the water together and voila , you have hailstones . And in Guadalajara ’s showcase , you have a tidy sum of them .

see out some more range and videos below chronicling the violent storm and aftermath .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtU01qzaHzU

🇲 🇽 ❄ Parts of#Guadalajara , Mexico remain buried under two beat of#hailafter a junkie violent storm smash the metropolis on Sunday .

" These are never - before - see natural phenomena , " said state regulator Enrique Alfaro . " Then we ask ourselves if#climatechangeis real … it ’s incredible . “pic.twitter.com / W8XT5fVQqu

— FRANCE 24 English ( @France24_en)July 1 , 2019

AlMomentosiguen los trabajos de remoción de hielo en las calles de la colonia Rancho Blanco con el apoyo de maquinaria pesada de nuestra dependencia , retiramos el granizo de las calles y posteriormente se depositaran en camiones de volteo.@GobiernoJaliscopic.twitter.com/su9L2ee4A9

— Protección Civil JAL ( @PCJalisco)June 30 , 2019

Update 7/2 : This article ’s headline has been updated to clarify that five feet of hail did not fall on Guadalajara , but rather parts of the urban center saw five invertebrate foot mellow hail drifts as a result of the storm .

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