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White Summer? 'Snow' Conditions As Hail And Floods Batter Birmingham

August has only just ended but it seems as though winter is here already as freak weather conditions have battered Britain.

With lightning bolts and flash floods battering Birmingham, the city has now been hit by giant hail stones - marking the start of a WHITE summer.

The freak blizzard swept through the Midlands on Tuesday evening and the violent conditions brought traffic to a complete standstill.

Video footage one house shows a street completely flooded as water rushes down it, forcing residents to stay indoors.

Many took to social media to express shock that winter weather had arrived so soon.

Stuart James Ellis wrote on Facebook: “Looks like Christmas come early.”

Nigel Moppett added: “Hahaha so much for end of summer. Winter here you come.”

Twitter user @miss_sammstar showed her garden swamped in icy hail and wrote: “So much hail it looks like snow!!!”

Marian Warem of Kings Norton, Birmingham, watched her garden get covered in hailstones.

She said: “My grandson was out with a friend in the car and he said he’s never seen anything like in his life.”

The Met Office had not predicted the storms, although they had warned the region was in the path of a band of heavy showers moving northwards.

It was caused by colder air colliding with the remnants of a front that had moved over the UK from the continent.

Maybe winter will be hot and sunny - we can only dream.