Hyderabad, April 27 --  Hours after baking at 43.7 degrees Celsius, South Hyderabad got something nobody saw coming.

A massive hailstorm swept through the Shamshabad-Nadergul stretch on Monday evening, April 27, blanketing the roads in a thick layer of hailstones. 

Residents, still reeling from one of the city's most brutal April heatwaves, stepped out of their vehicles to find roads that looked and felt like they had been dusted with snow.

The scenes were hard to believe. People walked through crunching ice underfoot, held hailstones up to the light, and did what people do when nature completely catches them off guard - they pulled out their phones.

The hailstorm is part of the same weather system that brought thundershower...