On Sunday evening, Hong Kong experienced torrential downpours of nearly 3 inches of rain in under an hour accompanied by golf ball-size hail. Hong Kong has only seen 39 days with hail in the last 48 years, making this weather event especially unusual.
A strange scenario unfolded at the Festival Walk shopping mall when its skylight windows were shattered by the hail, allowing the torrential downpour to stream directly into the mall…
Of course, shoppers had their phones ready to share their bizarre experience with the rest of us as pieces of the ceiling came crashing down…