Now that I think about it, it seems strange that I’ve never been caught in a hail storm. I’m always in a building or vehicle. I guess that could be quite a shock depending on the size of the ice. The part that I always found the most entertaining is that the hailstones are usually very hard to see when they are falling. Then they suddenly become very noticeable against the green of the grass as they hit the ground and do a little bounce. It creates a very comical illusion where it appears that little balls of ice are spontaneously hopping out of the ground. Like some sort of giant front yard popcorn maker.
Hail happens in the summer, even in the lower 48. Here in Denver, hail is not uncommon during summer storms.
good thing it ain’t sleet, man that stuff is painful.
i had hail down here once, it was the size of beans, it did it for ten minutes, and as quicly as it satrted to hail, the hail stopped, and it rained, so the hail got frozen to stuff.
One time I saw a hail begin about 20 meters away from me. It looked like a wall of heavily falling snow. And then it moved to where I was and kind of interrupted our softball game. Fun times.