In some areas of St. Petersburg on Saturday, there was a downpour and hail, which filled the streets with grains the size of a cherry tree, according to users in the social network "VC".

"In the center of the city hail, July, what are you doing?!" - write in the group "Emergency Challenge St. Petersburg".

"Strong hail in the Moscow region. Streets are covered with hailstones the size of a large cherry tree, "- said in the group" Road accident and state of emergency St. Petersburg ".

Users also post photos and videos of the city's districts, where showers with hail.

"So after the summer city looks like Kolya Tomchak Street and other streets of the Moscow region - on the roads flood, pedestrians do not envy," - said one of the users.

At present, about 19 degrees Celsius in St. Petersburg.

In the comments to this news, one of the users wrote: When the relics of Nikolai the Wonderworker were taken from Moscow to St. Petersburg, I jokingly predicted natural cataclysms to Petrograd by analogy with the pristopostal:) Now he himself thought seriously: is there an Orthodox shrine in those hands, If its movement through the cities is accompanied by such anomalies?.