An icy torrent swarmed trough the streets of a city close to Milan after a dramatic hailstorm in northern Italy.

Small ice sheets appeared to kind on the floor of fast-moving water deluging a part of Seregno.

In footage circulating on social media, taken from an higher ground, the particular person behind the digital camera says: "It looks like a river flowing."

The road within the video is abandoned aside from for a person making an attempt to brush floodwater out of the bottom ground of a constructing.

"I see the shoes-shop owner in front on me and water is coming inside the shop," somebody out of shot within the movies says.

It adopted a extreme hailstorm that battered Italy's northern Lombardy area, dwelling to Milan, and the northeastern Veneto area.

The area was already reeling from a extreme heatwave that had gripped virtually the entire of Italy, bringing temperatures of 44C (111F) within the southern island of Sicily.

Scientists agree heatwaves in all components of the world are getting stronger and extra doubtless attributable to local weather change.