Bowdiddley Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=072710hail This guy says it was scary! I would guess so! I was caught out in a hail storm where there were golf ball sized stones and I was scared. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Bow... I've seen hailstorms kill livestock, including some big bovines... Anyone not somewhat concerned is nuts. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Back in my early days of touring, we were in a van in Arkansas and got caught in a major league hail storm. In that old metal van it sounded like machine gun fire. I was one scared cowboy. :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Daryl... Being a scared cowboy means you're neither stupid nor nuts. I tend to call the large chunks of ice falling from the sky "the dirty four-letter 'H' word." It's cost the modern world more money than tornadoes... Lightning is another underrated danger as well. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Owl Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I once read hail can't fall if the temperature is below freezing, strange that mother nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G McBride Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Wouldn't have know what hit you if that big on landed on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Brandon... A lot depends on variations of microclimate at your elevation. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Owl Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 True, I just thought it was one of those general rules. Here the hail we get occasionally feels like little pins and needles instead of being punched by the heavens, or worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Once it gets to golf ball size... <grin> Where I live there can be a cupla thousand feet variation in altitude on the highway within a relatively few miles. Some 11 miles away is the record-holding town for the fastest variation in temperature ever recorded - enough to break plate glass windows. So... I'm pretty aware of how microclimates can mess with weather. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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