Holy Mexico hailstones! Easter week is getting freak weather

MEXICO CITY — Residents of the Mexican capital normally celebrate their four-day Easter weekend with water fights to cool down from the searing April heat.

But millions leaving work Wednesday were confounded by the sight of hailstones thudding on their cars like marbles.

The hellish shower quickly left the main eastern road to nearby Toluca — which many use to escape for vacations — paralyzed with inches of ice.

Here is how it looked from a helicopter.

People said incredulously that it seems like they were in Siberia.

At least as some waited trapped on the road, they got to fulfill their dream of making a snowman.

They were almost as good the snowmen made in freak storms in the Middle East recently.

But it was no joke for many motorists who were trapped all night in the freezing conditions.

Mexico’s feared federal police — normally known for blasting it out with drug traffickers — were sent to the scene to hand out blankets and food and clear the roads.

Mexico’s meteorological service explained the freak conditions were caused by a channel of low pressure clashing with humidity from the Gulf of Mexico.

It warned that more hailstorms might hit the city again Thursday night.

Many on Thursday morning were still waiting on roads from the gridlock of the previous night.

“This is how my holiday has started… The brewskis will have to wait,” tweeter Alejandro Medina bemoaned.