PAPEETE, 17 October 2013 (AFP) - hail fell Wednesday on Papeete, in Tahiti, where this phenomenon is exceptional, said weather-France. Hail, the size of a marble, have fallen for ten minutes, near the port of Papeete. It was thought that they were small stones that fell on our trailer, reflects on the local channel TNTV a young woman, Maraú Sudheer. It was still evil when it fell on us, for me this is the first time, so its pretty awesome she added. This phenomenon of hail is observed only one to two times a decade in this archipelago of French Polynesia to the tropical climate. With us, zero-degree temperature, it is 4,000 meters above sea level, so it took it crosses this area of positive temperature to reach us, says Bernard Saulnier, France weather forecast Division in Tahiti.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:21:26 +0000