[ad_1]
An ice day in the Planalto Sul Catarinense. At dawn, the Frost covered the fields of São Joaquim on the second day of the year. This afternoon, an impressive hailstorm in the municipality of Bom Retiro.
The hail storm occurred on the afternoon of Saturday (2) and scared the residents of Bom Retiro. The hail started around 2:30 pm and lasted for about 15 minutes. The amount of ice was so great that it transformed the landscape of the region, which used to snow in winter, seemed more snowy due to the accumulation of ice stones.
TIME | Intense rain of hail this afternoon in the municipality of Bom Retiro, in the Planalto Sul Catarinense. pic.twitter.com/WxRxmnPMcb
– MetSul.com (@metsul) January 2, 2021
TIME | A strong hail transformed the landscape of Bom Retiro, in the South Plateau of Santa Catarina. pic.twitter.com/TlmuYiLvi4
– MetSul.com (@metsul) January 2, 2021
The town of Santa Clara, about eight kilometers from the center of Bom Retiro, recorded the hail rain with the greatest intensity. Drivers driving through the area at the time of rain tried to pick up their cars from a gas station and the area turned white with ice.
A colder air mass entered southern Brazil. With the upper parts of the atmosphere cooled and more warming at the surface and in the lower and middle layers of the atmosphere there is convection (upward movement of the air) that formed charged clouds that brought hail. These are very isolated events associated with very localized clouds, as seen last year in a historic hail storm in Curitiba.
[ad_2]
