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Hailstones the size of tennis balls hit south-central France (PHOTO, VIDEO)

A huge thunderstorm has bombarded the French region of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes with hailstones the size..

      A huge thunderstorm has bombarded the French region of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes with hailstones the size of tennis balls, and included a record number of lightning bolts, providing for a deluge of impressive content on social media.      

The meteorological calamity led to the classification by Meteo France of most of the country as being at the second-to-worst level orange weather threat on Saturday. But Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, located on the border with Switzerland and Italy, was hit the hardest.

One video captured a swimming pool that looked as though it was boiling, due to the massive hailstones falling into the water.

A man wearing body armor made of cardboard boxes as he tried to protect his car from the ice lumps, also caused a lot of laughs, despite the stunt putting him in real danger.

There have been, so far, no reports of deaths of injuries caused by the hailstorms.

Encore de violentes chutes de #grele ce dimanche comme ici dans le #Gard
Les #orages sont moins nombreux que la veille mais restent localement puissants (carte des échos maxis sur 3h).
Photo : Bianca Frontier Selzer via météo Languedoc pic.twitter.com/znKVWf8NPQ

— meteo60 (@meteo60) Read More – Source
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