I was privy to some pretty incredible weather this evening. Today was unseasonably warm and muggy. Some bad weather was predicted for this afternoon with a cold front moving in. They predicted mostly thunderstorms, but as I was watching Tiger Woods in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, an eerie beeping started coming through the TV…. Severe Storm Warning for Eastern PA! Then I see my county pop up. Uh-oh. tornado warning? Is it going to be that bad? Well I did watch the TV show Storm Chasers last year (great show by the way) so I’ve learned a few of the tell tale signs of supercells, mesocyclones, updrafts, and so on. Well, I was a bit nervous when I heard hail starting to fall…Hail is created in times of severe updrafts, one of the main ingredients for tornadic activity. The hail started off fairly tame. Small pea shaped stones, but as the wind picked up, the hail started coming in at an angle and got increasing larger. It started to sound as if someone was shooting my house with birdshot. Then it sounded like large rocks. My house has aluminum siding so the sound is a bit amplified on the inside. I went out into my garage to get some video and this is what I saw and heard… *turn your volume up because it starts getting really loud towards the end, like someone shooting a 9MM*
Pretty wild. I have been in hailstorms before, but never for this long and never this large. The hail was about the size of a half dollar and it lasted for a good 5-10 minutes before it finally turned to rain. I took a walk around the house after the storm and luckily nothing was broken or damaged. I wonder if everyone else was so lucky?
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