At the moment, one could be forgiven for thinking that weather patterns throughout the world are being determined by someone rolling dice because they seem completely random.
As normally temperate areas experience record heat waves not long after hot areas experienced snow for the first time in recent memory, many of us could only guess at where things would go crazy next.
Over the weekend, however, we had our answer as a total surprise has just taken place in Mexico.
As CBS News reported, this left the city covered in at least three feet of ice, with some areas experiencing six-foot piles of it.
One tweet, as translated from Spanish by CBS News, said, "I was in the place to assess the situation and witnessed scenes I had never seen: hail more than a meter high, and then we wonder if climate change exists."
Dozens of them were reportedly swept away in both Guadalajara and surrounding districts while the storm was going on.
Since the hail fell, however, Jalisco's civil protection service reported three cases of hypothermia in adults.
To make this happen, local authorities are working with officials in the neighboring city of Tlaquepaque, as well as the Mexican Army.
He also said a line of clouds moving southward showed that an atmospheric boundary crossed over the area, which either ignited or increased the hail storm.
Although its unclear whether this meant conditions over Guadalajara had suddenly gone from dry to moist, warm to cool, or simply saw a change in wind direction, the change was dramatic enough to bring the storm about.
Berardelli said that it was able to maintain its intensity over an extended period of time because there was no other storm in the area to compete with, so the hail storm was able to get a steady supply of the fuel it needed.
h/t: CBS News
