Our family’s hearts and prayers go out to everyone across the U.S. who was impacted by catastrophic weather over the Memorial Day weekend. We just had a few rounds of severe meteorological events in Houston, including some close calls for our community. Extreme weather seem to be the bywords of the day.
This video was shot on May 24, 2024, by my colleague in Turin as he was trying to get home after our late-afternoon meeting in the city center.
That’s hail, not snow. Yes, hail.
We were meeting in a room with a view of the expansive Piazza Vittorio. The weather changed from partly sunny to cloudy and then became suddenly violent.
Everyone I’ve encountered on this trip to Italy keeps talking not just about climate change but also about how rapidly and intensely and unpredictably weather events seem to develop.
Weather forecasts they say are only partly reliable. And it’s affecting everything from outdoor restaurant seating to grape growing to erosion to flash flooding and more. I’ve been coming to Italy for nearly 40 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.
Video courtesy Paolo Tondat.
Do Bianchi 
Jeremy, very coincidentally, I was in Turin that day, too. Was at the Galleria Sabauda when we heard a what seemed to be a violent storm around 3:30, and looking outside, it certainly was, which was unexpected. My Weather.com app did not show a chance for rain in Turin until 10 PM. Thankfully, we were inside when it hit, but it did delay our departure. We heard the hail, but it was strange to see some on the ground well after the peak of the storm.
Mike