Hailstorm at SS14 Subang Jaya

Wednesday around 5.00pm the distant thunder growled the quiet evening. I was home alone as my wife went visiting her Kota Damansara SHailstorm at SS14 Subang Jaya

Wednesday around 5.00pm the distant thunder growled the quiet evening. I was home alone as my wife went visiting her Kota Damansara Sis-in law at Subang Jaya Medical Centre who underwent an appendix removal operation. As there were clothes on the line, I thought it best to have them removed in case of rain.

As I was removing the clothes small drops of rain started to fall. I was lucky to remove the clothes and was back to my computer when I heard loud thudding sounds on the awnings.

I thought the rain droplets were pretty heavy to cause all the noise when my eye caught the actual event happening. 1/2 inch balls of ice were falling from the heavens. For approximately 10 minutes it rained ice balls. They were all over my front and back porch, and all over the neighbourhood.

1/2 inch hail stones (ice balls) on the floor mat.

I called my son at Cyberjaya to ask if it was also happening there. He mentioned that it was hazy and dry there, but did ask me if I took some pictures of the event. I did not have the presence of mind at that time, but rushed to get our Digital Camera. By the time I got the camera out, the ice droplets had stopped and rain was falling fairly heavy. I did manage to capture the remnants of the ice balls that were in some flowerpots, under the flower stand, around our dustbin and on the front porch corner of my house.

Hail (iceballs) around the dustbin and under the flower stand.

That evening I had to fetch my daughter from school and did ask her if she saw the hailstorm. Yes she replied and that some of the ice balls flew into her classroom. They picked it up and found it ice cold. She also told me that the science lab analysed the ice balls and found it to be acidic (the ice balls must have collected all the haze particles and acid in the air).

Ice balls inside flower pots and towards the wall.

On my drive back home, I saw a number of fallen branches and leaves, on most of the road around SS14 Subang Jaya, caused by the hailstorm.

Though the hailstorm was exciting it did not clear the haze.

Yesterday the Government declared Port Klang and Kuala Selangor "Haze Emergency" with API readings of 529 and 531 respectively.

Flower pot filled with the ice balls.

The afternoon school in SMK Subang Jaya was declared closed on Thursday around 3pm and will remain closed on Friday.

We don't know if Monday will bring more haze or clearer skies, we will have to wait and see.