Way back when (over eight years ago!) I shared a picture of some wild hail. Last night another big boomer passed through the Twin Cities, and the hail was the biggest I’ve personally yet experienced:
Apparently some folks got baseball-sized hail. (I saw a picture in a local news article — hail stone side by side with a baseball. That would do some serious damage. The stones I was getting were plenty loud as it was!)
I just had to step outside (in my underwear) and grab a few of the bigger ones. Stuck them in my freezer. Maybe I’ll actually put them in a soda or something. (Or just take them out and admire them once in a while.)
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For a couple of hours, it was quite a lightning show. No major ground strikes around me (and thankfully no power outages like a few weeks ago). I do love it when the lightning never stops — constant electrical activity!
I just love weather!
Stay safe, my friends! Wear your masks — COVID-19 is airborne!
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August 10th, 2020 at 10:30 am
On my side of the area, we just got really heavy rain and no hail. Which was good, because we DID get hail last fall, and our entire neighborhood basically got a Very Expensive facelift, paid for by our respective insurance companies. Seriously – pretty much everyone got a new roof and new siding, including us.
I would hate to see what would happen if we all needed repairs yet again.
August 10th, 2020 at 11:33 am
If it had gotten much bigger, I would have really started to worry. I have a skylight in my living room ceiling. It takes the full brunt of the hail, and I’d hate to have a big hole in my living room ceiling during a major thunderstorm!
Started off as jelly bean size, but then got bigger (and louder). Biggest I’ve ever seen, that’s for sure!
August 16th, 2020 at 12:04 pm
They’re still in my freezer, slowly sublimating away…
July 1st, 2022 at 1:48 pm
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