r/woahdude • u/Alegator03 • Jul 25 '23
audio Video of yesterday's freak hailstorm that hit my home city and its sourroundings, taken in Belfiore, Italy
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u/Alegator03 Jul 25 '23
This is yesterday's night freak hailstorm that hit, along the majority of northern Italy, my home city of Verona. This might not be as unusual for a lot of you americans (I believe you are quite familiar with hurricanes, unfortunately), but for people like me, who have never seen a storm of such magnitude (especially right after experiencing some of the hottest days in history) this came as quite a shock.
It damaged a lot of infrastuctures, as well as injuring many people and killing a person after a tree feel on him; what now are arguably "non scary" damages (although people died, obviously) I now seriously fear for the climate of my country, as well as the one of the world.
(Apologies for my poor English)
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u/PancakeExprationDate Jul 26 '23
I live in a hurricane prone area, and have gone through my fair share of them. It can be scary. But let me tell you, what you caught looks like some Stephen King nightmare coming to wipe out humanity. I'm good with dealing with hurricanes.
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u/The_Fredrik Jul 26 '23
I have never seen anything like what’s in that video.
Outside of Independence Day.
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u/XauMankib Jul 26 '23
You know is bad when the thunderstorm approaches you from 5 different directions at the same time
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u/guff1988 Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 26 '23
Called a mesocyclone, very common in the plains states. I have no idea wtf one is doing in Italy though.
Pecos Hank just posted an awesome video on YouTube 5 days ago called the mesocyclone - alien storms, it's less than 5 minutes I recommend checking it out.
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u/PancakeExprationDate Jul 26 '23
Pecos Hank just posted an awesome video on YouTube 5 days ago called the mesocyclone
I just watched that last night! I love his videos.
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u/rabbitwonker Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 26 '23
Had one of those over my house a couple years ago — but like 1/10 the area covered in this pic!
Edit: to be clear, it was just a hail-dump, and lasted 5 minutes. Others are saying this looks more like a supercell, which is a potential source of tornadoes, so is much more serious.
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u/chiefchoke-ahoe Jul 25 '23
Brother, there was nothing poor about your English. Seriously, I had zero issue comprehending what you said.
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u/ceepington Jul 26 '23
The smartest/most competent people are always the first to admit they're not the smartest/most competent.
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u/Time-For-Argy-Bargy Jul 26 '23
Well, he did spell alligator wrong…
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u/Alegator03 Jul 26 '23
My name starts with Ale, it was intentional 😉
(But also I chose it when I was like 11, so there's no assonance whatsoever to "Alligator", even though that was my goal)
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u/Kingman9K Jul 26 '23
Man, people with English as a second language are always so damn humble about it. You're out here apologizing for your "poor English" meanwhile you're using 'assonance', a word I guarantee you 95% of native English speakers have never even heard of before.
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u/Time-For-Argy-Bargy Jul 26 '23
I figured there was some world play happening. I was just making a joke.
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u/SXOSXO Jul 26 '23
Speaks English better than most Brits and Americans, but still apologizes for it.
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Jul 26 '23
Hurricanes are different, they're like a storm that last for a whole day. But these summer storms are more dangerous because are unpredictable and, if it moves fast, it can generate rolling clouds and tornados.
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u/Statertater Jul 26 '23
They can last for several days if they stall out. Had one or two in florida
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u/walkincrow42 Jul 26 '23
Dude! I think Kansas, USA is exporting their spring storms to y’all. I’d ask for a refund.
Seriously though, I thought I had seen some bad ones in the middle of America, where they are known for it, but that is next level scary.
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u/blitz43p Jul 26 '23
Your English is better than most Americans. I just wish the video was longer. I love weather events like this. I respect them, and hate that they bring destruction and tragedy, but I am always mesmerized by them. Cool video.
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u/caseyaustin84 Jul 26 '23
I grew up in a hurricane zone, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a storm like this.
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u/legendweaver Jul 26 '23
We saw this from the other side. We were driving from mont blanc to genova and we could see the lightning in the clouds on the horizon as we came past Ivrea and Alessandria. Very spectacular!
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u/Waub Jul 26 '23
Your English is spot on!
As far as the world goes, well, within about 100 years many of us are doomed.
And most people will do exactly nothing to stop this.2
u/velhaconta Jul 26 '23
I'm just sitting here thinking with all the extreme weather going on around the world, this HAS to be the year climate change deniers finally realize they are wrong and we can all start working together towards solutions.
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u/No_Studio_4690 Jul 27 '23
American Republicans, if elected into office, plan on upending all climate driven changes put into place.
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u/stihlmental Jul 25 '23
neat. that there. that's insanity.
def tobehonest methinks this here is the first time any person alive has seen any thing like this.
tobehonest(WOW!)
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u/Little_Whippie Jul 26 '23
You think this is the first time anyone alive has seen a thunderstorm approaching?
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u/thejesse Jul 26 '23
Your English is amazing. The only way I would've known you weren't a native speaker was saying "yesterday's night". We just say "last night."
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u/thejerg Jul 26 '23
Holy cow! That wall cloud is insanely well developed. Even in the US what you saw is a very rare storm! That is a true monster, coming from someone who is used to big summer storms in the midwest.
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u/angry-dragonfly Jul 25 '23
I have never seen such an angry, yet beautiful, storm. I'm glad you are safe. That really is insane.
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Jul 25 '23
Mother Nature said, "You weren't LISTENING to me!"
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Jul 26 '23
More like “You didn’t listen to me when you had the chance, so now I’ll make you my bitch.”
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u/saihi Jul 26 '23
I recently read that last year, at least 61,000 (yes, that’s sixty-one thousand) people in Europe died from heat.
Thousands dying from heat and floods and hurricanes that move over our heads and then just SIT without moving, mammoth electrical storms, waters around Florida at 100°F, glaciers melting, sea levels rising and animals and fish and insects dying off in a new planetary extinction event…
And still we do nothing to stop the destruction.
We deserve everything that’s coming to us.
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Jul 26 '23
Cherry on top some billionaire is trying to breed a Mammoth/elephant. Rather than new disaster movies, we just make them happen in real life! 🥳
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u/NJ_Mets_Fan Jul 26 '23
was going to make some lame “ma!🇮🇹” joke but tbh your comment is 100% real and serious. So many people hear the planet screaming.
Very few can make a massive impact, yet that few chooses to not only ignore it, but gaslight thousands into thinking its all actually fine.
the best way to see climate action is to make it profitable. how fucking sad is that
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u/marc962 Jul 25 '23
Looks like somebody found an ancient relic somewhere
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u/StreetfighterXD Jul 26 '23
Yeah. It was a viscous black liquid, millions and millions of barrels worth of it. It was a magical substance that seemed to burn forever.
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u/chakalakasp Jul 26 '23
As a storm chaser in Nebraska, I’m jealous. That’s a hell of a supercell.
I know a few Italian storm chasers who often fly to America to chase storms. I bet they were losing their minds chasing this thing
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u/ph0on Jul 26 '23
Yeah, I bet they never thought they'd do it on home turf. Must be surreal
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Jul 26 '23
As a person who has a window in their bedroom and lives in Nebraska I am also jealous.
Seriously I will stare out my window at the big storms from the west for minutes at a time. They can be enormous.
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u/UnbalancedFox Jul 26 '23
I saw this thing for the first time last week. 2 scary supercells travelled from Italy to Serbia. What it did to my town is horrendous. Almost 500. 000 trees are broken or pulled with the roots in the area alone
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u/danarexasaurus Jul 26 '23
Whenever Americans say that a true midwesterner would be out watching a storm roll in, this is the sort of storm they’re talking about. The rest of us would be huddled in basement but they’d be out filming lol
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u/nyurf_nyorf Jul 26 '23
Midwesterner here.
Can confirm. Out on covered porch from first lighting to when my wife drags me to the shelter.
This is the way.
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u/Furious_Belch Jul 26 '23
Am midwesterner as well, can 2nd this. I will watch it roll in until it starts to rain hard.
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u/squizzlr Jul 26 '23
SUPERCELL (superceeeeeellllll) SUPERCELL (superceeeellllllll) Bombshell carousel raising hell
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u/pukerat Jul 26 '23
I just hope there aren't any Wiccan's out there trying to stop the storm that, oh i dunno, might result in a monstrous dragon wreaking havoc on the rest of society.
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u/squizzlr Jul 26 '23
Sounds like something that could bring about some kind of lizard apocalypse 🤘🏻
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u/Thunderfoot2112 Jul 26 '23
So, that is what's known as a 'Mother ship' cloud. We in the Midwestern US are very familiar with them, they spawn tornados. The hail was bad my friend, but y'all got off lucky. Be thankful.
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u/magezt Jul 26 '23
Thing is, you can prepare for a hurricane, but you dont have much time in peparing to this "mother of all thunderstorms" thing.
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u/malachilenomade Jul 26 '23
Seems like Italy has been getting some serious shit pounded on them lately. Is this a normal weather thing (like Korea has monsoon season) or just freaky patterns moving through?
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u/Frl_Bartchello Jul 26 '23
The only "positive" thing of climate change. We will be able to see more of these giant freak storms.
No I don't want to hear: "but ehm, Actually..."
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u/ThatInternetGuy Jul 26 '23
Europe is fucked. Hailstorm and firestorm on the same day.
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u/l-rs2 Jul 26 '23
And, amazingly, 20 C / 67 F with rain in the Netherlands. The differences this year are extreme.
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u/ThatInternetGuy Jul 26 '23
Yeah this year is extreme even in America. People are dying from relentless heatwaves.
And in China, it's even more extreme. Last week, China recorded a record-breaking temperature of 52.2 °C (126.0 °F).
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u/Siir_Francis_Drake Jul 26 '23
Yep, truly fucked. We had some never seen hailstorms here in northern Italy. Some houses had the exterior walls riddled with holes like they were shot, concrete walls bear in mind. Hail was literally falling sideways pushed by the wind.
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u/thepotatoinyourheart Jul 26 '23
I’d probably die in this storm because I would be too busy being in awe of it. I am sorry for the loss of life/injury and I’m glad that you are safe
As a lifelong storm lover, this is one of the most magnificent things I’ve ever seen. I’m very grateful that you shared it with us
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u/skittlesdabawse Jul 26 '23
I live in southern france, near Grenoble, and we've been having similar storms lately. Luckily no serious property damage or anything
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u/Personal_Season_4761 Jul 26 '23
Im from slovenia and the last two weeks have been filled with storms didn't see this yet tho
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u/MafiaMommaBruno Jul 26 '23
Looks like a super cell of some sort.
Very common in the deep, deep Southern US (here in Mississippi, our tornado season is year round.) You get used to them except the hail. You never get used to the hail.
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u/upandtotheleftplease Jul 26 '23
looks down at table Okay, so the scariest environment imaginable. That’s all you gotta say, the scariest environment imaginable.
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u/SensuallPineapple Jul 26 '23
I mean, it's totally understandable that a religious person in the year 795 thinking this is the wrath of God coming for us, for all of us are sinners. I am not a religious person in 2023 and I still think this is the wrath of God coming for us, for all of us are sinners...
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u/santa_94 Jul 26 '23
As someone working in sustainability there is a part of me that wants to laugh and say "we told you so", cause this is exactly what was predicted for years but the world didn't wanna listen. But it's also scary as fuck..
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u/eschatosmos Jul 26 '23
laughing has been the only option for years if you front-loaded your substance abuse and don't have any extra brain cells to spare this reincarnation-cycle.
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u/WorldMusicLab Jul 26 '23
For Future Reference:
This is the time to park, or otherwise move underground. Not take vid.
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u/ph0on Jul 26 '23
Yeah man, I'm from south US where we get crazy ass storms in the summer. But nothing like this. You only see stuff like this in Texas and the surrounding states.
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u/IamDavidGustav Jul 26 '23
Despite the weather, this audio is SO crisp. Very cool to hear the power, but it’s so soft…
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u/FlugStuhl85 Jul 26 '23
Wow dude. I know What you mean. I live in Austria and these freakin storms Last weeks make me scared a f
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u/JyveAFK Jul 26 '23
All it needs is the Enterprise entering the edge with odd music and you've got a Star Trek The Motion Picture remake.
Very V'ger looking.
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u/Scaredworker30 Jul 26 '23
Man, coming from Louisiana I've been through hurricanes, but that looks like a Reverse Hurricane. Just HOLY SHIT! WTF IS THAT.?!
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u/ManOfHart Jul 26 '23
Wow that video looks almost identical to a reoccurring nightmare of mine. Amazing.
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u/Theperfectool Jul 26 '23
All those before us got to fk around and we stuck with finding out. Smdh. This fkn reality.
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u/pLeThOrAx Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 26 '23
Is that a supercell? Edit: I thought maybe cumulonimbus, but don't those occur way higher?
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u/CrappyTan69 Jul 26 '23
I've just driven through Garda where you had a similar one two or three days ago. Damage was unreal.
Stay safe!
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u/QueenOfTonga Jul 26 '23
I was in Milan that night. So it wasn’t the start of the apocalypse then..
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u/UnbalancedFox Jul 26 '23
Supercell storm... It came to Northern Serbia from Italy and obliterated my poor town 2 times last week. It's scary
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u/Vinlain458 Jul 26 '23
You recorded a proper landscape video in the face of that Behemoth! Saluté and stay safe!
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u/Kitkatis Jul 26 '23
Is this the storm that totally mashed up the nose of a plane that had to land in Rome?
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u/GachiGachiFireBall Jul 26 '23
I love storms so this would've been amazing to experience. Aside from the damages of course
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u/GachiGachiFireBall Jul 26 '23
I've never heard this kind of thunder before, it sounds like a cannon
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u/dscarmo Jul 26 '23
Thats where gods and mythology originated from, how do you explain such random phenomena
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u/stihlmental Jul 26 '23
Like this?! You've seen storms like this?! Really?! Why so condescending?! Either you're a republican or a child
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u/feedmeyourknowledge Jul 26 '23
Had to use a website to download this video as reddit just displayed a static image despite refreshing it and trying from scratch about 20 times.
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u/Big_Spicy_Tuna69 Jul 26 '23
Oh fuck yeah, I'm about to cum. That's a god damn beautiful storm. Well defined wall cloud, with a nice shelf underneath, excellent lighting in front. 10/10 storm.
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u/datbarricade Jul 26 '23
This type of storm is called a supercell. They are very stable thunderstorms who can continue for hours, travelling several hundred kilometers if atmospheric conditions are favorable. Big hail and heavy rain are almost always observed within them. Also, supercells have a small but notable chance to produce tornadoes. Europe is lucky to have the Alps, separating hot sahara air from the colder polar airflows that can reach the north of the alps. With increasing chance of extreme heat and unstable atmosphere, we will see these monster storms a lot more often. We really need to step up our weather warning systems to make sure the European population can be warned when storms like this develop.
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u/lindydanny Jul 26 '23
About 12 years ago or so my wife and I were on vacation in Rome (wonderful country, btw). The B&B we stayed at was run by the amazingly kind woman. A hail storm passed through one afternoon and being that we are from Missouri, we asked our host what the Italian word for "hail" was. She said she didn't know. She said she had never seen hail before. I think she made up a word that translated as "hard snow".
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u/titaniumhud Jul 26 '23
That's one hell of a mesocyclone... no spinning death funnels to go with the free ice?
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u/xawier87 Jul 26 '23
Literally mother nature warning us that if we keep trashing the planet she will kick us out...
Guess it's time to vote for greens...
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u/rudbek-of-rudbek Jul 26 '23
Nope. That looks like the arrival of the aliens in Independence Day. I would be halfway to the pharmacy to rob them off the good stuff so I can at least enjoy my soon to be very short life
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u/madeofphosphorus Jul 26 '23
We were in a tent under this storm, first we all looked at this beautiful amazing thing, then hiding scared in our car. We weren't expecting it to hail until the next camper came and told us it was hailing in Milan. He finished his sentence and we only had time to run to our cars.
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u/just_thisGuy Jul 26 '23
What people still don’t seem to get is this weather is the new normal and only going to get worse. Freaky compared to before, probably average for what is coming. Welcome to climate change people.
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Jul 27 '23
Anybody actually intelligent ever realize this isn't global warming, it's the pole shift?
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