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Post by richardw on Dec 25, 2017 13:38:40 GMT -5
This massive hail fall close to where raymondo lives on Christmas day , i hope your garden is ok, thank goodness we never get hail that big.  |
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Post by philagardener on Dec 25, 2017 14:03:39 GMT -5
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Post by reed on Dec 25, 2017 16:53:48 GMT -5
Here we see reports of hail like that down in Texas and other places. I always figured it to be mostly a myth, maybe once in a while a really big one or two, enough to photograph for the news. Three or four years ago I was proven wrong, completely wrong.
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Post by richardw on Dec 25, 2017 23:41:33 GMT -5
I feel for the wildlife, imagine getting a smack on head with that, i see eastern oz is getting another round of supercells right at the moment.
reed - did you get hit by such large hail
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Post by reed on Dec 26, 2017 5:59:07 GMT -5
I didn't personally get hit by one, those things would have easily killed a feller. We had a brief little storm that covered the ground a couple inches deep in just a few minutes. After it melted I noticed here and there what looked like baseballs so went out and found them. None hit the roof and none hit the truck but one took out the bottom of the frame on the kitchen window and one took out a board on the side of the chicken coop. They were a little thicker up the road, the neighbor lost the windshields in all their cars and I don't know what all else.
It was at least 1/2 hour later when the smaller stuff had all melted so I wonder how big they were to start. Everything would have been destroyed if all the hail had been that big. I bet that's how it is in most of these cases, regular hail with some of the really big ones mixed in. it don't take many to get your attention.
The ones in your picture are a little on the small size.
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Post by RpR on Dec 26, 2017 20:58:53 GMT -5
I always thought hail was neat as a kid. Go out side when the was an inch or more on the ground then I learned what hail does to a garden and anything it hit.
Thank God it has been a long, long time since I have seen a hailstorm that coated the ground.
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Post by richardw on Dec 26, 2017 23:53:28 GMT -5
Agree, dont want the stuff any where near my garden. Reminds me of a company called Applefields www.applefields.co.nz/ They set up large scale apple growing in a hail prone just outside the city of Christchurch, that was there first balls up as they got hit badly a number of times during the growing season. There second cockup was they choose of apple and that being the Braeburn variety www.waimeanurseries.co.nz/our-products/fruit-trees/apples/braeburn/ , a disease prone apple that has a taste some where between water and ice. |
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Post by reed on Dec 27, 2017 4:13:15 GMT -5
I forgot about the garden after that storm, wasn't much left of it.
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Post by walt on Dec 27, 2017 13:14:47 GMT -5
About 25 years ago when I was teaching high school science, someone brought in hail even bigger. Did I believe it was real? Yes, after seeing the pickup truck the guy was driving when the storm hit. It would have taken my a while with a 10 pound sledge hammer to have done that damage. New truck too. Bummer for him. I hoped he had insurance.
Nasty. Those are killers.
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