Freak Hail Storm Hits Siberian Beach

This video was made this summer on a Siberian beach. More than 2 mil people watched and comment on this video. Siberian Times posted this video on 12 july 2014. Temperatures on Saturday 12 July were as hot as 37C – or 99F – in Siberia’s largest city, Novosibirsk, the day the hail cloudburst struck.

A freak storm has hit a Siberian beach in mid summer, battering bathers with hailstones the size of golf balls. Temperatures had been hot when suddenly heavy winds hit the river beach in Novosibirsk. Swimmers raced out of the Ob River and shielded themselves with parasols and sun beds as the giant hailstones rained down.