Texas sees snowploughs in May as ‘DVD-sized’ hailstones strike state

Western Texas briefly looked like a winter wonderland' amid dramatic temperature drop and hailstorm

Just as people start bringing out their shorts for the start of summer, one Texas town had to reach for something rarely seen in late May: a snowplough.

Parts of the state saw a dramatic 50F temperature drop on Wednesday thanks to a giant dump of hail, some DVD-sized". The storm made western Texas look, briefly, like a winter wonderland.