ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />At least 20 people were injured and more than 100 cars damaged in a sudden mid-summer hailstorm in the Russian Siberian town of Mezhdurechensk on Tuesday (August 14).<br/> <br />The weather suddenly changed in the evening with wind bringing a torrential downpour of huge hailstones, some the size of golf balls. Witnesses said some hailstones reached seven centimeters in diameter.<br/> <br />Town residents had literally to save themselves and run to nearby buildings to find cover. Big hailstones pierced holes in car windows, sometimes smashing the glass altogether.<br/> <br />Meteorologists said they believed the sudden summer storm was caused by a sharp temperature drop from 32 degrees Celsius at lunchtime to just 16 degrees Celsius by the evening.<br/> <br />Mezhdurechensk is located in the Kemerovo region in Central Siberia some 3,800 km east of Moscow.
