First hailstorm of the season brings relief to residents of Vellore, Tirupattur

A beardown hailstorm has brought much-needed alleviation to residents successful the borderline villages of the Vellore and Tirupattur districts of Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh connected Thursday, arsenic the regular somesthesia touched 42.4 degrees Celsius successful Vellore.

Meteorologists astatine Vellore Observatory of India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that enactment of cumulonimbus clouds owed to aggravated vigor for respective weeks was the crushed for the abrupt hailstorm successful the town. “Clouds during hailstorms are formed successful a abbreviated time. Such hailstorms hap chiefly inland arsenic they are acold distant from oversea breeze that eases utmost heat,” N.A. Nehru Raj, meteorologist ‘A’, Vellore Observatory, told The Hindu.