Lumps of ice the size of a clenched fist fell this week from a clear sky
over a playground just north of Stockholm, Sweden.
No one can explain where the lumps of ice came from, according to the
Swedish paper Aftonbladet. The ice shower occurred between 5:40 a.m. and
7:00 a.m. Tuesday. The large ice lumps came falling out of a perfectly clear
sky at a playground at Hammarbyvägen at Upplands-Väsby.
«I walked over to the playground around five in the morning,» explained the
70-year-old Bengt Eurs to the paper. «When I came back at seven, the roof of
the gazebo was destroyed and there were large lumps of ice on the ground.»
«I have a hard time finding an apparent explanation of the phenomena, » said
Isagel Cederfamn, a Swedish mythologist.
However, Aftenbladet points out that the playground is on the approach route
for Stockholm’s main airport Arlanda.
Between 6:35 a.m. and 7.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 11 planes passed over the area,
but both SAS and the airport management at Arlanda claim that it is highly
unlikely that the lumps of ice came from any of these planes.
bil/caravan
