Italy
On the evening of January 27, priests at the Salesian monastery in
L’Aquila,
Italy were startled by a loud crash. Investigating the noise, they
discovered a
large chunk of ice on their patio, largely intact. Determining that
it could not
have slipped off their roof and at a loss to explain just where it
came from,
they called the police. Upon examination, the block of ice weighed
in at 2
kilograms (4.4 pounds) and no source was determined.
On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Itlay, the
local
magistrate was called to investigate the report of a man who was
struck on
the head by a 1 kilogram (2.2 pound) chunk of ice that apparently
fell from
the sky.
Meanwhile, about 100 miles southeast of L’Aquila, another similar
mysterious block of ice fell in Avellino, Italy.