I'm presently driving somewhere around kuto, in abeokuta and there's massive hail storm here.It's so strong,it's got people leaving their cars for shelter.To give you an idea.it's like having gravel poured on the roof of your vehicle from a four storey building.this is the second time I'm witnessing this anomaly.the first being around 1981 In Festac as a kid.Is this phenomenon normal,or a sign of the end time as predicted.2012

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Lmao at end times. Hailstorm is prolly not normal in naija, but it is fair game in Canada lol. make una enjoy

yea my girlfriend just pinged me from naija to tell me...Abeokuta is full of people with no idea of hailstones like most other nigerians so i expect they are scared to death loooooool......wish i was home tho....

@Poster, please I want to ask: those things in the picture; are they really the things falling down from the sky in Abeokuta

HAA, the end of times he says!

Hail storms are very normal. Not very common, but normal.

they are not normal or common in Nigeria

OP are you sure that was in Abeokuta? Tennis ball hail stones in Abeokuta? You do realize that hail stones are ice? For which kind weather (over 90 degree farenheit) in Abeokuta is hail stones (again ice) gonna form? Abeg stop.

moderattor: they are not normal or common in Nigeria

They are normal anywhere in the world. By normal i mean the phenomena, not the occurrence or its frequency.

2 be very frank...it is snowing in my state, ask a fellow resident? The Guv'nor cals it dividends of his gud leadership! 2 be very frank...it is snowing in my state, ask a fellow resident? The Guv'nor cals it dividends of his gud leadership!

Any Ekitis in the house who had experienced this in Ekiti? I did!!
It was fun! I used to stcik out my tongue to catch those icicles.

Interesting development...

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moderattor: they are not normal or common in Nigeria

thats not true it hails in jos. i have seen it with my own eyes

Hail storms can form in tropical areas as well, but it is very rare. They are normally found in the mid-latitudes.

Hail forms in strong thunderstorm clouds, particularly those with intense updrafts. The atmosphere above Abeokuta must be very cold, when it should be warm, since we are talking about the tropics.

I see we do not ve geography and meteorology students these days.

Ranks007: 2 be very frank...it is snowing in my state, ask a fellow resident? The Guv'nor cals it dividends of his gud leadership! 2 be very frank...it is snowing in my state, ask a fellow resident? The Guv'nor cals it dividends of his gud leadership!

... Where is your state?

Its nnnormal.. it falls in Sokoto .. back then when i was in FGC sokoto

It is not common, but does happen from time to time.

We use to call these "yinyin" in Yoruba, but they were never big like in the photo.

e-herbal:
I'm presently driving somewhere around kuto, in abeokuta and there's massive hail storm here.It's so strong,it's got people leaving their cars for shelter.To give you an idea.it's like having gravel poured on the roof of your vehicle from a four storey building.this is the second time I'm witnessing this anomaly.the first being around 1981 In Festac as a kid.Is this phenomenon normal,or a sign of the end time as predicted.2012

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No be new thing. I experienced it in Ita-Oshin motor park, Abeokuta in the early 90s, but i no think say dem big reach dis one o.

I have seen this in Saki, Oyostate in 2007.

[size=50]if end time dey come dey go write am 4 rain? Naija we too dey overhype something its high time u learn some geography[/size]

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to d JJC people wey no blv say hail fall 4 ABK. Yes it rained Ice Block. Dis is d 2nd tym I m witnessing it in ABK.
I also xperienced Iced rain in Jos, last yr.
But it s nt d sign of ENDtime.

I wonder if Snow will also be white if it ever drop in Nigeria.

You think Naija snow will be dirty and brown like our water bodies right?

I remember picking this up in the rain as a kid in 85-1990s. Its very frequent in Osun State back then.

But it disappeared as we grew up, that it got us thinking why such rain is no longer falling!!

Good old days!! U run out n pick while ma-ma is calling u to get in, but its a good such of ice-water back then!..lol..

C'mon, very common and very normal in thunderstorms particularly at the outset of the season.

Ileke-IdI:
Any Ekitis in the house who had experienced this in Ekiti? I did!!
It was fun! I used to stcik out my tongue to catch those icicles.

It happened two years ago in ekiti

Ileke-IdI:
Any Ekitis in the house who had experienced this in Ekiti? I did!!
It was fun! I used to stcik out my tongue to catch those icicles.

True, but I've never seen big ones like those in Nigeria.

LOl @ sticking out your tongue to catch icicles.

two yrs ago in Katsina, we experienced a disastrous hail storm. it started raining normally, then later hail stones came along with the rain and finally it stopped raining and only hail stones were falling for about 5mins or more. some hail stones were as big as pure water ice block. they came in various shapes n sizes; some were perfect round balls with spikes around as if they were artistically carved. it was so heavy dat some people thought it was the end of the world. it damaged vehicles windscreens and injured lots of people who were outside at the time. in fact due to the size and the speed which they fell, the hail stones penetrated peoples' roofs and ceilings and were falling into peoples living and bedrooms. it was really an unprecedented experience for me and a lot of people in kt. i watched out to see it in news in the media due to the huge damage it caused and because it was an uncommon thing but it was not captured; peharps because it happened around 8pm. so its not supprising as the OP posted those pics; the ones that fell in kt were even much bigger!

Tooto lo so. One of those can knock a Naija solja into a coma.

Aigbofa:

True, but I've never seen big ones like those in Nigeria.

LOl @ sticking out your tongue to catch icicles.

kuka700: two yrs ago in Katsina, we experienced a disastrous hail storm. it started raining normally, then later hail stones came along with the rain and finally it stopped raining and only hail stones were falling for about 5mins or more. some hail stones were as big as pure water ice block. they came in various shapes n sizes; some were perfect round balls with spikes around as if they were artistically carved. it was so heavy dat some people thought it was the end of the world. it damaged vehicles windscreens and injured lots of people who were outside at the time. in fact due to the size and the speed which they fell, the hail stones penetrated peoples' roofs and ceilings and were falling into peoples living and bedrooms. it was really an unprecedented experience for me and a lot of people in kt. i watched out to see it in news in the media due to the huge damage it caused and because it was an uncommon thing but it was not captured; peharps because it happened around 8pm. so its not supprising as the OP posted those pics; the ones that fell in kt were even much bigger!

LOL Sounds like hailstorm of biblical proportions.