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[nolly]

http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/thunder/hail.html

Hail can happen anytime and any place a thunderstorm can happen.

Usually, this is in the summer.

Hail in Southern California is just not that unusual; I think we've had hail at least once almost every year I've lived here.

Signed,
Tired of People Acting Like Hail is Snow or Otherwise Unheard-of

Comments

[jeran.livejournal.com]

Californians (at least the San Diego subset) seem to have selective amnesia when it comes to anything rain-related. We get decently heavy rain at least once every year, but when it comes everyone seems to have forgotten how to drive in it.

[janni.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, tornado watch in Southern Arizona? Not so common. :-)

(Thanks for the rain. We'll try to make good use of it.)

[robot-grrl.livejournal.com]

I wasn't as freaked about the hail here - it looked to be too small to cause damage to the cars - but in the Midwest hail goes hand in hand with tornadoes.

[postrophe.livejournal.com]

And once I saw hail up to a foot deep in a McD's parking lot in Sunland. Cars were skidding, kids were playing around, as if it was snow.

[redbird]

Those same people, in Washington or Baltimore, would act as though snow was a sign of the end of the world. (Yes, a foot of snow in D.C. is unusual and a problem, but It Happens.)