Oh my! Oh my! It's really true that Singapore had one event of hailstone shower!
Check out the following information by Reuben!
Central Singapore hit by hailstone shower
This incident was on the 27th of March, 2008.
Icy pellets falling from the sky had caused residents in Braddell, Bishan and Toa Payoh to be excited...
Parts of Singapore were pelted with hailstones on the 27th of March, 2008 during a heavy downpour. The weatherman had confirmed that the pellets of ice were reported from central Singapore between 3.15pm and 3.45pm. The ice pellets were roughly three quarters the size of a five-cent coin and had caused quite a stir in Bishan and Toa Payoh.
An eyewitness Mr Goh said, that he was in his office when the hail started falling. He said that at first he thought that it was just raining heavily. But he felt that the sound of the rain was different-it sounded more like there were solid things falling instead. When he went to his corridor in his office, he saw that tiny bead-like things were bouncing about on the ground as the rain poured down. They became excited when they realised that the things were actually ice which melted very quickly. The eyewitness said that it was the first time he had seen this weather phenomenon but the ice melted very quickly and soon was all gone.
There were people guessing that the hailstones fell for about 10 minutes. Another eyewitness Stuyvesant Lim said that he heard a commotion outside when he was observing a quiet game of chess when he was in the Residents’ Committee Centre. The eyewitness said that he thought it was kids throwing ice from the block then he realised it was actually falling from the sky. He also realised that if the hailstones had been bigger, it could have damaged the windscreens of cars. A third eyewitness Mrs Evelyn Chan said that the strangely ‘hazy’ atmosphere made her leave her house. Once she went to the courtyard of her house block she saw crystals. She thought it was snow but when she picked up a piece, she realised that it was actually ice. It was said that before this incident, there was another hail shower in July that year.
This kind of weather is rare in Singapore so we should appreciate it but it could get dangerous if the hailstones or ice pellets we may call, get too big and injure people or items. So we should be grateful that we have a month when hail may come..
If you are still not convinced, check out the news article by Channel News Asia!
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/337625/1/.html
