Tennis ball sized hail, is this sort of thing on the rise? I believe I've heard of softball sized as well. When I used to think of hail they were little ice balls.

Troy

Dad talks about a normal cold spell in early May, so maybe this is the issue with the cold/cool weather lately. Still doesn't convince me that the global weather is normal.

Troy

London watch:
I think we lost about 10°C in one day. yesterday the weather was so great in london, with beautiful sun, everybody was almost naked. and today, well big change after a rain last night, now it is back to cold.
this is defenitly not normal!

Do we have any members in the area that is getting snow today. I think it was in South Dakota. On your weather channels do they say if this is a record or if it happens occasionally in your area at this time of year.

We've had some up and down temps here in Southwest Virginia. Cool today following some quite warm days. But I think we are moving away from the night time temps that were around freezing. We'll just see how it goes.

Troy

I saw where it was only 68 in Raleigh today but I was sweating away in South Carolina where it was over 90 in the shade above someone's concrete patio. It was still hot in the 80's elsewhere until a storm formed overhead with .5" hail just down the road.

It's been a pleasant week. very sunny most of the time but o lot of wind and still cold. again today, along the thames the wind was blowing so much and the air was pretty cold. can't wait for the nice day to come

Good to see the rain today.

Troy

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Cafeman, I like how you phrased that.

Troy

We just had an F1 tornado touch down a few miles north of me, in the town of Arlington, Washington. As we were having some pretty good, violent thunderstorms this week, it certainly was a shocker, as this part of the country gets maybe one or two tornadoes a decade, and those are usuaaly really weak ones with winds barely reaching 60 miles an hour.

This one was an F1 storm, and as such, it didnt do much damage. Just REALLY weird in this part of the country.

I know movie has been mentioned before, but is this that crazy stuff like "The Day After Tommorrow"?

Troy

Yah, but "the day after tomorrow" was too dramatic, It is kind of happening like in "the day after tomorrow", all of that stuff happens too fast. It probobly wouldn't happen that fast, but it might be possible, I guess. In L.A. there was a huge heat wave. It broke many records and in alot of places there were tempreatures in the 100's. pretty crazy, because its not even summer.

We had a 29 degree temp and an 86 degree temp this month. They came maybe 10 days apart. Is it winter or is it summer? Mother Nature doesn't seem ti know right now . :-)

It was in the upper 40s at about 6:00pm today in Southwest Va. Not real extreme, just out of place.

Troy

I can't believe it is 46 and windy and rainy and I had to turn on my heat this morning. I'm out on Long Island NY and I know it is usually warmer than this before Memorial Day. I'm hoping it warms up for next weekend -- we have a wedding to go to at a house on the water and it is all under tents.

I am from the Indian state of TamilNadu which lies in the southern part of India.After experiencing temperatures in the range of 40-44 degrees celcius for the last two days we have had storms lashing us yesterday.

Also in places where the killer tsunami stuckin tamilnadu, the sealevels are once again rising haphazardly and actully innundated around 30 villages last week

Talk about crazy weather