Between 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm yesterday, in the outskirts of the city, it hailed. Laxman Gadekar was away from home when he received a call from his wife that hailstorm has hit their locality, Tilekarnagar.

What the hail! Children play with pellets of ice, for the first time in their lives. Pic/Mohan Patil

The area, which has about 800 families (around 2,000 people), was lashed with big and small pellets of ice such as the locals had never seen in their lives.