On August 28, 2026, in Bülach, Zürich, Switzerland, @sm.zvrich shared a video showing students sheltering inside a vocational school classroom during a severe hailstorm. In the video, students watch as large hailstones batter the classroom windows. The storm brings powerful winds and hailstones reportedly reaching up to 6 centimeters in diameter, with the impact eventually shattering the windows and scattering glass and debris across the desks. According to reports, a fast-moving weather front swept across northern Switzerland that morning, bringing destructive winds and heavy hail. The author said they had never seen anything like it.
This 14-second weather clip was filmed in Bülach, Zürich, Switzerland on August 28, 2026 and added to the VBear Media library on September 1, 2026. VBear Media holds exclusive rights to this footage: it can be licensed only from us. The licence is signed by the person who filmed it, and the original file is delivered after licensing. Typical uses: weather reports, extreme-weather coverage and climate features.
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