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Mexico Hail: Ice 1.5m thick Carpets Guadalajara

posted by martyb on Monday July 01 2019, @04:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the How-to-keep-a-cool-head-in-summer dept.

SemperOSS writes:

Freak flooding in Guadalajara after a massive hail storm. Pictures on BBC:

Six suburbs in the Mexican city of Guadalajara were carpeted in a thick layer of ice after a heavy hailstorm. The ice was up to 1.5m (5ft) thick in places, half-burying vehicles.

[...] Hailstorms form when warm, moist air from the surface rises upwards forming showers and storms. Temperatures higher up, even in summer, can get well below 0C and so ice crystals form along with something called "supercooled water" which then grows into pellets of ice.

In severe thunderstorms, air can rise rapidly and is able to hold up these hailstones and allow them to expand in size. Eventually they get too heavy and fall to the ground.

In warmer parts of the year, such as in Guadalajara which has maximum temperatures of around 31-32C [(87-90 °F)] in June, more moisture is available, contributing to the formation of hailstorms.

Temperatures this month have been higher than normal with Torreon, to the north of Guadalajara, reaching highs of 37C [(99 °F)].

Hm, I wonder if somebody is going to mention anthropogenic warming with this?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Monday July 01 2019, @06:14PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 01 2019, @06:14PM (#862107) Journal

    you'd have to increase the surface by several million square kilometers, and where would we take that surface from?

    Landfills. But more specifically, AOL floppy disks. These were once part of AOL's "pave the earth" campaign to sink the continental US below sea level.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday July 01 2019, @09:30PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday July 01 2019, @09:30PM (#862162)

    Actually, if you put all the AOL CDs on roofs reflecting the sunlight away, you'd probably drop the local temperature by a few degrees.
    #AOLsaveTheWorld. It's a good thing we keep getting lots of Third-world kids to dig through those landfills...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @12:23AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @12:23AM (#862219)

      Are landfilled CDs shiny enough? Do we need to employ an army of CD polishers as well?

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 02 2019, @01:19PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 02 2019, @01:19PM (#862368) Journal

        There are many good CD sander-polisher tools [grainger.com] to help keep your CDs in excellent condition so they are shiny and easy to read.

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