Hail suddenly appeared in the center of Ho Chi Minh City

This afternoon (June 14), some places in District 3 (HCMC) recorded hail. According to residents, the hard raindrops, about the size of two fingertips, fell with the heavy rain.

On her personal Facebook page, Miss H'Hen Nie shared: "It's hailing in Ho Chi Minh City, everyone be careful when going out!".

Hail appeared in Ho Chi Minh City this afternoon. Photo: Miss H'Hen Nie

According to Mr. Le Dinh Quyet - Head of Forecasting Department of Southern Hydrometeorological Station, Ho Chi Minh City occasionally has hail, which is rare, but still occurs 1-2 times a year. The conditions for hail to form are high temperature and humidity, very strong convection, often with convective clouds, growing up to tens of kilometers high, even surpassing the convection limit, water droplets condense, turn into ice, and fall down.

Miss H'Hen Niê posted a warning about hail on her personal page. Photo: Screenshot

"Hail is very dangerous. If the hailstones are small, they are less dangerous, but if they are large, they can puncture roofs, crush crops, break house windows, car windows... If large hailstones fall on people, they are very dangerous and can cause injury," Mr. Quyet warned.

Previously, the Southern Hydrometeorological Station forecast that the weather in Ho Chi Minh City on June 14 will be sunny, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the late afternoon and at night, with some places having moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms.

Over the past 3 hours, monitoring satellite cloud images, weather radar images and lightning positioning shows that thunderstorms are developing and causing rain with thunderstorms and lightning in the districts of Can Gio, Binh Chanh, Nha Be, District 7, District 8, District 1 and central districts, Thu Duc City.

In the next 3 hours, thunderstorms will continue to develop, causing showers, accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning in the above districts, then expanding to other neighboring areas. Rainfall is generally from 5-20mm, in some places over 20mm. During thunderstorms, beware of tornadoes, hail and strong gusts of wind of about level 5-7 (8-17m/s).

Source: https://danviet.vn/trung-tam-tphcm-bat-ngo-xuat-hien-mua-da-202406141609098.htm