https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/guadalajara-mexico-hail-1.5196344
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Freak hailstorm buries part of western Mexico in ice
Wacky weather causes flooding, damages homes in Guadalajara
The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 01, 2019
Officials in Mexico's second-largest city say a freak storm that dumped
more than a metre of hail on parts of the Guadalajara area damaged
hundreds of homes.
Images shared by the western state of Jalisco's civil defence agency
show cars buried up to their windows in hail on Sunday. The government
brought in heavy machinery to clear streets and dig out businesses.
Streets looked like rivers of ice.
The hail clogged drainage systems, leading to intense flooding in places.
The storm also partially buried tractor-trailers and cars, bringing
families out on to the streets to play in ice piled high despite the
summer heat.
Soldiers and police who took to the streets to help with the cleanup
operations slid and slipped knee-deep into the drifts.
Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro said on Twitter that he's never seen
anything like it.
Guadalajara, in western Mexico, usually sees average temperatures in
June of around 31 C.
Following the early morning storm, the temperature reached a high of
about 27 C on Sunday in the city.
Residents of San Miguel de Allende, a high desert community east of
Guadalajara that is popular with U.S. tourists, also awoke to several
inches of hail covering city streets on Monday.
The local government posted photographs of workers shoveling hail and of
buildings damaged by fallen trees.
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