Rain, snow, and hail fall across Central California

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Heavy storms moved their mode crossed Central California Thursday, bringing snowfall to the higher elevations and rainfall and hail to the Valley.

Hail pelted thenar trees successful Merced and slowed down postulation successful Lemoore.

Joe Lopez captured this video of the hail pellets hitting his windshield arsenic helium near NAS Lemoore this afternoon.

"I didn't expect it to that magnitude origin determination was astir apt an inch oregon 2 connected the ground," said Lopez. It looked similar snowfall had fallen origin it wasn't precise hard, but it was sticking to the ground."

The pellets collecting connected the roadway forced immoderate drivers to propulsion disconnected connected the broadside of the road, including Lopez.

"I had to halt due to the fact that it got adjacent worse wherever you couldn't truly spot precise overmuch and postulation was stopping," said Lopez.

In Madera, thunderstorms brought pouring rainfall successful the afternoon, creating tiny puddles successful yards, and soaking plants.

An ABC30 Insider captured lightning streaking supra rooftops from dense acheronian clouds.

The dense storms besides soaked backyards successful Northwest Fresno.

The drenching inactive came arsenic a invited to a parched vale aft a drier winter.

"I was benignant of tense due to the fact that I cognize my dad's a farmer, truthful I cognize helium depends a batch connected water," said Lopez.

In Coarsegold, Donna Miller said her pal Itty Bitty enjoyed catching caller snowfall successful the afternoon.

Breaks successful the storms brought invited rainbows.

Before nighttime rainfall fell erstwhile again.

For a moment, wide skies shone agleam implicit Bass Lake, highlighting the caller snowfall coating the shore.

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