yah, it woke me up too. i’m actually kinda skeptical if it was hail. thanks for taking this picture…if you have a couple more, would you mind emailing to me?

I’ll add a a couple as an update here later. Or check my flickr page in the weather folder.

I just uploaded my photos. Man, that was loud! I was so tired, all I remember thinking was, “That’s some Chubby Rain!” Considering that it lasted about 20 minutes, I’m surprised more of my plant didn’t get damaged.

Same stuff on the ground here in Glassell Park.

That wasn’t hail, it was sleet. I grew up in eastern PA and Cleveland where there was real winter. Sleet is frozen raindrops that fall from the clouds once they’re frozen. Hail usually can only happen in summer months where frozen raindrops spend more cycles cooling and freezing in the clouds. They’re usually bigger than sleet and happened more often during thunderstorms, at least where I was from.

Incidentally, according to wikipedia, the Brits don’t use the word sleet, calling it hail instead.

Actually having grown up in the UP of Mi and the ozarks it looked like hail not what we would have called sleet or freezing rain. Not much of a difference as it was still wet hard rain. And we do get hail in our winter storms, lost a windshield once already because of it.