According to reports, the hail storm started while rain was falling heavily around 5.42pm. The weather was slightly windy and the rain lasted about 27 minutes. Roads, rooftops and vehicles were covered with ice blocks. Frightened motorists, who did not know what was hitting their vehicles hurriedly parked by the roadsides.
In Ake, the wind shields of three vehicles were broken by the ice. The experience was the same
in Panseke.
A witness who wrote his experience on Nairaland and posted these pictures said it was like having gravels poured on the roof of your vehicle. “I’m presently driving somewhere around Kuto, in Abeokuta and there’s massive hail storm here. It’s so strong, it’s got people leaving their cars for shelter. To give you an idea, it’s like having gravel poured on the roof of your vehicle from a four storey building. This is the second time i’m witnessing this anomaly. The first being around 1981 in Festac as a kid. Is this phenomenon normal, or a sign of the end time as predicted in 2012?”
Another witness, Mr. Denola Badejo of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library(OOPL), Abeokuta, said he was afraid when the rain caught him driving. “I thought it would break my glass. The first time I witnessed it was in 1977 in Ijebu – Ode. I was in the secondary school then. During my first experience, tiny fishes fell from the sky with the ice. I caught one of the fishes and tried to rear it, but it died later.”
Apparently, these are older people who have experienced such in Nigeria. But for some of us who weren’t around in 1977 or in 1981, a hail storm in Nigeria is completely new.
In Nigeria’s tropical weather, hail storms aren’t normal. What could be the explanation for this? A climate change or what?
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