Freak Beijing Storm Turns Day Into Night

“It was pitch black outside and you could see people looking out from the office towers across the road from us,” McDonell said.

“In a couple of the photos you can see a clock in the distance showing it was around 11:30 am local time.”

The storms were expected to affect western and northern Xinjiang, most part of Inner Mongolia, north-east China and north China.

Today’s extreme weather follows yesterday’s hail storms across eastern China’s Anhui province, which killed 14 people and injured more than 180, AFP reports.

Anhui’s Civil Affairs Bureau said that more than 10,000 people were evacuated and nearly 9,700 houses collapsed in yesterday’s severe storm.

via Freak Beijing storm turns day into night – Yahoo!7 News.