An icy torrent swarmed trough the streets of a city close to Milan after a dramatic hailstorm in northern Italy.

Small ice sheets appeared to type on the floor of fast-moving water deluging a part of Seregno.

In footage circulating on social media, taken from an higher ground, the individual behind the digicam says: "It looks like a river flowing."

The avenue within the video is abandoned aside from for a person trying to brush floodwater out of the bottom ground of a constructing.

"I see the shoes-shop owner in front on me and water is coming inside the shop," somebody out of shot within the movies says.

It adopted a extreme hailstorm that battered Italy's northern Lombardy area, house to Milan, and the northeastern Veneto area.

The area was already reeling from a extreme heatwave that had gripped nearly the entire of Italy, bringing temperatures of 44C (111F) within the southern island of Sicily.

Scientists agree heatwaves in all elements of the world are getting stronger and extra possible as a consequence of local weather change.

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