July 18, 2006

What the Hail?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jim @ 8:02 pm

I really don’t know a damned thing about meteorology. Weather reports are, for me, the ultimate soporific. Cold fronts, warm fronts, falling barometric pressure, rising barometric pressure, and isobars make my hair hurt. By contrast, weather itself gets my attention.

So here we are in Jersey with temperatures in the nineties (and higher) over the last three days, and all of a sudden I hear “bang, crack, bang, crack, crack, crack” as if someone were shooting buckshot at the house. I look out on the deck, which just five minutes earlier was a blistering inferno the surface would burn your bare feet, and it is covered with little chunks of ICE, each about the size of half a marble. Farookin’ hail!

WTF??

I think I know more about computers than I know about weather.

4 Comments »

  1. Jimbo…same here bro, was on line and heard all this bing bop boop against my siding of the house looked out the window and saw it was hailing. holy shit………

    Comment by chef of da future — July 18, 2006 @ 8:36 pm

  2. We’d gladly take the hail here in Montana – it seems like the whole damn state is on fire the last couple of weeks.

    As Mark Twain observed “Climate is what we expect, and weather is what we get.”

    Comment by DMerriman — July 19, 2006 @ 1:02 am

  3. I have seen hail as big as golf balls in coastal Georgia before.

    Comment by Catfish — July 19, 2006 @ 11:25 am

  4. OK, you just announced the other day — “I’m thinking of buying a new computer.”

    And then, out of the bright blue — bang, crack, bang, crack, crack, crack — HAIL, right?

    Of course, I could be way off here.

    Comment by dogette — July 19, 2006 @ 8:43 pm

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