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- Six suburbs in Guadalajara, southwestern Mexico, experienced a freak hail storm early Sunday morning.
- The city’s roads were blanketed with up to five feet of ice.
- Dozens of vehicles were swept away, and homes were damaged. But there have been no reports of injuries or deaths.
- State governor Enrique Alfaro tweeted that these were "scenes that I had never seen before … we asked ourselves if climate change exists."
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A freak hail storm blanketed large parts of Guadalajara on Sunday, coating the southwestern Mexican city’s roads with up to five feet of ice and snow.
The city had been experiencing temperatures of about 31 degrees Celsius (88 degrees Fahrenheit) in the days before the unexpected storm.
Dozens of vehicles were swept away, and cars and trucks were submerged by the storms. Homes and businesses also reported damage.
There have been no reports of injuries or deaths, although there were two reports of people suffering from hypothermia, according to AFP.
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Six suburbs in Guadalajara experienced an unexpected, heavy hail storm early Sunday morning, coating the city’s highways and streets with up to five feet of ice.
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The hail mainly hit Rancho Blanco and the Industrial Zone, which are toward the southeastern parts of the city, Governor of Jalisco state Enrique Alfaro tweeted.
Source: BBC
The city had been experiencing hot weather — with temperatures of about 31 C (88 F) — in the days running up to the event.
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Source: BBC
After the hail storm, cars that had been on the streets were half-submerged in ice. At least 50 cars were swept away by the ice in hilly areas, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
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Source: Agence France-Presse
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