A vast white sheet of ice covered 30 acres in central Kenya this week due to a freak hailstorm that was mistaken by some villagers for the second coming of Jesus—and as it turns out, an ice storm of this ferocity in the region is about as likely.

While locals look to be enjoying their batty weather much more than, say, the Gulf Coast might be right now, there's just something about ice covering African plans on the equator that we find disconcerting. At the very least, it's an odd concurrence with the disappearance of all that ice in the arctic.

Photo: "This is freaking awesome," observed villagers near Nyahururu, Kenya.