This is the amusing moment a shirtless paddle boarder ignored an unseasonal summer hailstorm battering Twickenham as he cruised along the Thames yesterday evening (Aug 12).<br /><br />The watersports enthusiast was caught up in the driving rain which battered south west London following soaring temperatures earlier in the day. <br /><br />Instead of panicking as the deadly river was lashed with balls of ice, he kept calm and paddled on - to the amazement of residents watching from nearby homes.<br /><br />Onlooker Ruth Wadey said: ''I would not have wanted to have been on a paddleboard during the huge thunder and hailstorm we had at Twickenham.''<br /><br />Residents said the extreme weather appeared suddenly ''out of nowhere'' following soaring hot temperatures earlier in the day. <br /><br />''There was wind, horizontal rain, hail... and for a glorious moment cool air,'' said another local who recorded the summer storm from his home in Richmond.<br /><br />Other residents in Twickenham reported similar freak weather downpours.
