Hailstones!!

I live about mid way up the Western Australian coast, in Geraldton, have done on and offf for 40 years. We are not known for having wintery weather, doesn't get too cold and we don't even get an awful lot of rain.

So having 2 tropical type thunderstorms in 2 days is kinda unusual for us and although I guess we may have had them in the past, I certainly don't remember hailstones here before, and can't find any mention of them either, so the last 2 days have tripped my weird-o-meter.

The weirdest part is that it is 30c outside right now and it just hailed.

Yesterday (sunday) the kids in the neighbourhood were trying to catch them, having never seen them before, and whinging when they melted .

They weren't very big, not even as big as a pea, and only came down for a few minutes, but hail none the less.


PS: 30c = 86f

Same thing here in Alabama. Started about a year ago. We usually go months without any rain. The past 365 days have granted us rain at least once every 3 weeks (and I believe this was once around August) but it is more to the affect of raining weekly. It has almost felt to me like I was living in Seattle.

A couple of hours ago, I heard a lot of thunder and then I heard a big downpour on top of my house. Heavy downpours and thunderstorms at 11 PM at night in March are unusual. Now if it had been in Washington DC instead, I might have wondered if someone was trying to send a message. If someone was trying to send a message though, I would expect a lot more violent weather and natural disasters to strike soon. If it happened to hit DC or where Pelosi is from, they would probably just blow it off and not think it was any message.

Originally posted by Ekudram
Get pictures next time... Would love to see them as I dont get to your neck of the woods ever.

We tried to but they melted too fast

to jacksmoke:
Yeah I knew how they formed, it just doesn't happen here lol , it sure was a doozy, really dark clouds, lots of lightning and almost continuous thunder.

to ventian:
I hear ya, apart from the hail, it feels like we have moved to the tropics here.

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Yeah in Melbourne it was fairly warm and then out of no where it started hailing. Broke peoples windows etc and major flooding from it.

i live in texas and was at south by southwest, a huge music event, last week, and it was 70 degrees+ for 4 days up till saterday...and what di it do in texas today? snowed...in march...alot

Originally posted by munkey66
I just don't personally like seeing people calling natural things weird

Well I can see you are determined to argue no matter what so I only have one thing left to say:

[size=4]Don't read this thread[/size]

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[edit on 22/3/2010 by PennyQ]

glad you got to see a little hail
I love hail and think it's reall cool (in the small variety)

We had some hail late last year about 10-15mm (SE Coast, UK) Lucky there was no damage, but it made a lot of noise Personally I've never seen hail that large before (40 years) so that was a tad unusual, but really cool.. wouldn't like to see it any larger tho..

Update:

First hail in March (end of summer in aussie) now minus temp for the first time ever.

Early morning temperature for Geraldton on the 4th July was -0.4c , the first time it has gone below 0 since weather records have been kept here.

I sure hope this isn't a trend for the future, we didn't exactly build for cold winters in this part of the country.