What the Hell?

[ardys_the_ghoul]

We just had a freak ice storm. Well, not exactly a "storm," per se, but there were pieces of ice falling from the sky. I don't think they were quite big enough to qualify as hail, barely pea-sized, but when you're driving through town on your way home from Taco Bell and suddenly your windshield is bombarded with ice chips, you tend to notice

Comments

[redcoast]

It hailed here. Well, Isaac argued with me that it was *just frozen rain* because it's too warm to hail or something.

[ardys_the_ghoul]

Technically, it can hail anytime, particularly during severe weather. Sometimes it hails right before or after a tornado.

We've been having a lot of rain, lots of thunder and lightning yesterday, and it was overcast today, but I certainly wouldn't have called it "severe weather." Plus, it was forty-three degrees, which is partly why the ice was such a surprise.

We did have an honest-to-goodness hailstorm with icecube-size chunks here a few years ago--my car still has pockmarks on the hood.

[redcoast]

Isaac said it was sleet or frozen rain. We got into a stupid argument over it. Heh.

Around here the temperature dropped quite a lot, and we had a freeze last night. It was quite cold here in contrast with the previous few days. That's April in Tennessee.

[ardys_the_ghoul]

It got down below freezing one day last week, to the point that it actually snowed, and then the next day it was in the fifties. I think "Midwest" is synonymous with "Crazy Weather."