It looks like lumps of ice as Thailand's north gets hail

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported from the Chaiprakan district of Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand where there was a severe overnight hail storm.

 

By morning local officials were left with clumps of hail that had still not melted.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

They broke it up into clumps and waited for a thaw. It looked just like frozen ice.

 

The thaw wouldn't have taken long with temperatures expected to rise daily as Thailand enters its hot season.

 

The hail storms are a peculiarity of the weather as the seasons change from cool to hot, notes ASEAN NOW.

 

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[pedro01]

Glad that didn't land on my car/house.

[huangnon]

Looks more like the sheets of crystal meth "ice" normally found up there..????

[klauskunkel]

Strange. Nobody is praying to it...

[mrfill]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

They broke it up into clumps and waited for a thaw. It looked just like frozen ice.

Does ice come in any other format? I always thought unfrozen ice was water and that frozen water was ice, or has basic physics been changed to suit the culture warriors?

[ikke1959]

Probably from an airplane.. It is not hail for sure

[richard_smith237]

28 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Probably from an airplane.. It is not hail for sure

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai Rath reported from the Chaiprakan district of Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand where there was a severe overnight hail storm.

You don’t think it was anything to do with the reported hail storm and instead think Airplanes fly around with clumps of ice stuck to them ????.... erm.. 

 

Gotta say.. that be some imagination !! 

 

 

[Muhendis]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

It looked just like frozen ice.

Well that's a relief

[Enoon]

6 hours ago, pedro01 said:

Glad that didn't land on my car/house.

I doubt that it arrived in that "formation".

 

It is probably the result of small stones compacting together when landing in depressions in the ground, or piling on top of each other beneath sloping surfaces.

 

 

[Enoon]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

You don’t think it was anything to do with the reported hail storm and instead think Airplanes fly around with clumps of ice stuck to them ????.... erm.. 

 

Gotta say.. that be some imagination !! 

 

 

It doesn't take much "imagination" at all.

 

Just a bit of "knowledge":

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aviation)

 

 

[Woof999]

The ice in the second pic at the top right seems to be of the yellow variety.

1 minute ago, Enoon said:

Just a bit of "knowledge":

Also need knowledge of the colour blue.

[richard_smith237]

13 minutes ago, Enoon said:

It doesn't take much "imagination" at all.

 

Just a bit of "knowledge":

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aviation)

Quite right.... Knowledge, lets start with some basics. What colour do you think this blue ice is ???....  take a wild guess !!... 

 

So.. perhaps someone forgot to put the disinfectant in the waste tank... perhaps this was one of the extremely rare occasions that the sewage tank leaked this ’non-blue blue ice’....  and it did so at exactly the same time as a hail storm.... 

 

Or, this was simply hail stones that had pooled and compacted as they partially thawed ???  

 

Still believe this is from an aircraft ?? 

 

 

 

 

 

[honcho]

wow a weather event not blamed on the climate "catastrophe"

[Dazkkk]

12 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Probably from an airplane.. It is not hail for sure

Look closer and you can see the ice granules, typical of prolonged hail freezing together into lumps. 

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Probably from an airplane.. It is not hail for sure

I think this is what they found in the morning after it had accumulated on the ground.

Not how it had fallen from the sky?

[nigelforbes]

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I think this is what they found in the morning after it had accumulated on the ground.

Not how it had fallen from the sky?

Gravity?

[hotchilli]

3 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Gravity?

Yes, that's how it works.

[nigelforbes]

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Yes, that's how it works.

Do I win a prize?

[hotchilli]

3 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Do I win a prize?

For something yes, but you probably wouldn't appreciate it.

[nglodnig]

On 3/16/2023 at 12:05 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Airplanes fly around with clumps of ice stuck to them

Apparently (I used to live on the flight path into Heathrow) frozen ice from planes would land on the area - at least one car was trashed by a large lump of ice which was believed to have come off a plane that I heard about. Not that common but it HAS happened.

 

And here's the proof : https://www.heathrow.com/company/local-community/noise/what-you-can-do/ice-falls-from-aircraft

 

[richard_smith237]

7 hours ago, nglodnig said:

On 3/16/2023 at 2:05 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Airplanes fly around with clumps of ice stuck to them

Apparently (I used to live on the flight path into Heathrow) frozen ice from planes would land on the area - at least one car was trashed by a large lump of ice which was believed to have come off a plane that I heard about. Not that common but it HAS happened.

 

And here's the proof : https://www.heathrow.com/company/local-community/noise/what-you-can-do/ice-falls-from-aircraft

YAWN... So because something has happened under extremely rare circumstances... do you think think it is the case here [that blue ice, or ice build up fell from an Aircraft] when there was a reported hail-storm ??...  

 

... Or, do think the ice is from the hail storm ?

 

 

 

Geez... the people arguing that this could have been from a plane are being utterly preposterous and then doubling down on their daft theory !!!...  

 

 

[nglodnig]

14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

... Or, do think the ice is from the hail storm ?

 

It was actually from a Chinese weather balloon.