Another first for me late yesterday afternoon when in the midst of a pretty good downpour of rain I heard the most god-awful noise and after a moment looked outside to see very hale hail raining down and bouncing all over the deck. David called me very soon after this began and while I chatted with him for a minute or two I did end the call to try to see what the heck was going on outside. I opened the back door, leading out onto the covered portion of the deck, and was immediately struck by bouncing hail which was bouncing right into the door as well. Moving to the front door it was even more exciting as the quantity of hail falling definitely picked up as well as the size. Besides being somewhat taken by being involved in my first major hail storm like this I think I was most taken by the noise of it. It seemed to last forever but was probably about 15 solid minutes or so. No damage that I could see but I'll walk around the house to check things out. So, that's my hail experience :)
Out on the deck shortly after the hail started coming down.
A pretty poor shot trying to show this stuff bouncing around. I'm standing in the open doorway as there was no way I was going outside, even under the cover. See the area to the left where it looks like it's been cleared? That's directly under the end of the roof. As said, this stuff was bouncing.
Still coming down and piling up. It was 62 degrees out for pete's sake! If global warming was real this stuff would have melted on the way down!
Standing on the front porch after the hail had stopped falling for the most part. That looks like a golfball-size hail stone to me! I had called David back at about this time and told him that these large ones were pretty much everywhere, mixed in with the regulation-size stones.
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