A hailstorm in Chiang Mai introduced down energy poles and billboards yesterday. Hailstones have been reportedly the scale of baht cash. According to Matichon, the whole downtown area was covered with hailstones as the rain continued to fall.
The sturdy winds began round three.30 pm, followed by a downpour of hailstones and rain, and then one other wave of hail.
Locals and foreigners residing in Chiang Mai’s Nimmanhaemin area rushed out to see the weird phenomenon, with the roads turning white with hail. The spectators all stated they have been stunned as a result of this climate was not seen in Chiang Mai for a long time. One man mentioned the final time he noticed a heavy storm accompanied by hail was a long time ago when he was a baby.
Netizens shared video clips and pictures displaying the injury attributable to the storm. Hailstones smashed into a quantity of houses, and many roofs have been ripped open. Power poles that had been just put in one to 2 years ago collapsed over a distance of a kilometre. A damaged lamppost had also crashed on a car, trapping 4 folks inside. Billboards were toppled, and a tree fell on a home, injuring its occupants.
The Mae Jo Municipal Rescue Centre later introduced that their volunteers had eliminated a roof that had landed on the Ruamchok-Mae Khao intersection and was obstructing visitors. They also rescued a bedridden lady after a tree fell on her house and took her to the hospital.
The Thai Meteorological Department reported that a heat low-pressure cell presently covers higher Thailand, accompanied by southerly and southeasterly winds. No nonsense is scorching and hazy in the course of the day, and isolated thunderstorms are doubtless. At the identical time, easterly and southeasterly winds prevail over the Gulf of Thailand, the South, and the Andaman Sea, with isolated thunderstorms within the South too..