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Where you can see lions, tigers, and... hail?
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Wed Sep 3, 11:00 AM ET
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A huge hailstorm turned parts of central Kenya white, thrilling residents most of whom had never experienced such conditions, officials said on Wednesday.
Hailstorms are usual in some parts of Kenya, which straddles the equator, but the ferocity of the storm in Busara, 255 km (158 miles) northwest of the capital was unprecedented.
Excited villagers pelted each other with snowballs while some ate pieces of the icy sheet that formed over an entire hillside.
"We thought a big white sheet had been spread, so we decided to come and see for ourselves. We thought that it was Jesus who had come back," one villager told reporters.
Kenya's Meteorological Department said Tuesday's storm was caused by the convergence of cold air currents from the Indian Ocean and warm air currents from the Congo.
"The hailstones falling on the ground joined together to form expansive sheets of ice or snow flakes occupying a large area, 30 acres," a statement by the meteorologists said.
More than 12 hours after the storm, the forested hillside was still white despite the hot tropical sun.
"In fact this thing is very sweet, we have never seen anything like this. We like the ice so much because with the sun being hot, you take it and you feel satisfied," resident Simon Kimani said.
The only snow to be seen in normally sunny Kenya is on top of the country's highest mountain, 5,199-metre (17,057 ft) Mount Kenya.
(Reporting by Njuwa Maina and Patrick Muiruri; writing by Wangui Kanina; editing by Tony Austin)
No, seriously, what the hell?
KENYAN SNOWBALL FIGHT!
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Clearly this means there is no global warming am I right
geek you are the best
ICY HOT STUNTAZ
Now I'm confused.
:^::^::^:
I actually grew a third thumb just for this.
He's checking out my junk
oh wait that was the other thread
oh wait
it's every thread
NO TIGERS IN KENYA
that begs to differ
WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET MY FRIEND TAY ZONDAY
on youtube or something
i need to watch it
unless you're in the military or something
Because bitches totally dig it bro
bunch of kenyans getting crazy with snowballs
radsauce
When youre right youre right. UMD is packed full of them though. Maryland is as far south as people from Jersey want to go apparently.
Norway?
MORE LIKE SNOREWAY
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Sorry about the quality. My scanner hates glossies, and the digital copies are at my parents' house.
This is normally a dry creekbed. We'd had an unusually wet summer, but there wasn't any water here the day before. In case you were wondering, waterfalls are not especially common in New Mexico. Also, all the plants are various shades of brown in ordinary circumstances. These shots make the place look like frigging Ireland.
Since it was high summer, the hail had already melted out of the ditches in most places. This hail was presumably washed into the creek from a huge area of pastureland and carried down on the floodwaters. As you can probably tell, pretty much the entire exposed bank was underwater at some point.
If you can look past the image of me being impossibly dynamic, you can see how the bridge formed a chokepoint that caused all the hailstones to pile up here. You can also see the granular structure. From a distance, and in most of the pictures, it looks like solid ice or snow.
This was only about eight o'clock in the morning, and the whole thing was already starting to break down. All traces of ice were gone when we passed by that afternoon.
There were little caves being carved out by secondary tributaries flowing into the creek. This one was big enough to walk into, but the whole thing was unstable that nobody tried it.
We were trying to give a sense of perspective, but it didn't work out quite as we planned. The bank my dad is standing on is higher than the far side, and the creek was about fifteen feet wide here. The ice cliffs ranged from fifteen feet high to nearly twenty at their highest.
The day wasn't really cold enough for winter jackets, but it was extremely chilly down in the creek. The ice made it feel like a walk-in freezer.
So there's my hail experience. Not something you'd expect to come across, considering the area and the season.
FUCK YOU, GLOBAL WARMING!