An interesting storm

[jackiejj]

We, Kate and I, were racing home from the pizza shop in Clinton...Over the car, the sky was blue-black. I drove very fast, but as we passed the high school on the highway the rain began, big fat splats on the windshield

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[bojojoti]

I'm so glad you found an awning to shelter under. I've been in the sad position of being at work and having hail come unexpectedly; there was no shelter available, and I could see my car being pelted from my office window. It was pretty beat up with all kinds of dings, but the auto shop we used made it look like new.

[jackiejj]

Oh, sorry about your car!

We were lucky locally, because on last night's news there were photographs of tennis-ball sized hail up in Rogersville (upper east Tennessee) that put big dents in cars.

[margaf]

Brilliant! (Can you tell Dr. Who is on right now?!) We've had a bit of hail this year, but nothing that big!

[jackiejj]

I've seen lots of pea-sized hail, but nothing like this! And farther east, people got tennis-ball-sized hail (and it messed up their cars, too).

Storm

[mizannie]

We had the same thing on Monday.
Lots of wind damage, too. Hope
that you all didn't suffer a lot
of damage your way.

Re: Storm

[jackiejj]

Thanks, Annie. Nice to see you-

We had no damage here, but farther east people got 4" and bigger hailstones, with much damage to cars (and no doubt roofs, too).

[lizardek]

wow!

[jackiejj]

I couldn't believe how fast this happened--in just over ten minutes!

The lawn (as you can see) was covered, and the sidewalk was actually cold from all the ice. (It got up to almost 90 here, most unusual for mid-April, as we are usually around 67 or so in the afternoon right now.)

[pondhopper]

Thank goodness for gas stations with awnings!
Do you have a new car, Jackie?

Even here in southern Spain we get hail storms now and then. They are very bad for the garden.
:(

[jackiejj]

It's just a little Yaris. It sips gas!

I don't think about Spain as stormy: in my mind, it's always sunny and dry, with blue skies, everything in Technicolor.

[pondhopper]

I think we have fewer storms than you might but we do get some spectacular weather sometimes. We had a hail storm about a month ago but sometimes we get tremendous wind storms...our easterlies.
Then there are storm systems that come up from Africa and bring the Sahara Desert dust with them. None of the above happen frequently but they do happen.

And we've had two rainy years that caused a good bit of flooding in many places.

I guess our default setting is mostly blue skies and technicolor, though.
:)