Spain icy hailstorm 051121 Mallorca Credit: Guido Bahr

It took just 15 minutes for streets to be filled with ice, witnesses said, as they described a powerful hailstorm powerful hailstorm.

Thick layers of ice fill Mallorca streets after 'freak' hailstorm

The giant hailstones flooded the centre’s parking lot and prompted the evacuation of some 400 people inside.

Giant hailstones collapse shopping centre roof in Australian storm

Hail stones the size of golfballs smashed windows and cut power to hundreds of homes in the nation's capital of Canberra.

Mexicans basking in temperatures of 31C were quickly cooled down when a hailstorm fell in Guadalajara, leaving up to two metres of ice.

Hailstones as big as tennis balls hammered the Munich area on Monday as a series of thunderstorms lashed parts of Germany.

Local governments in China issued emergency responses following a deluge of hailstones on Sunday.

The Late Summer Bank Holiday weekend turned into a wintry scene in one corner of Norfolk as a hail storm brought a white covering in Belton.

It's not good news from Simon this morning.  Hail, thunder and up to an inch of rain expected across the South.