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I woke up today to hear a bunch of pounding on my window. The sound of thunder was booming as I saw hail beating up the window next to my bed.

 

I remove my curtain, only to see rain drizzling, huge chunks of hail falling, heavy fog, thunderstorms, and SNOW in 77 degree weather.

 

Sweet ol' minnesota I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

 



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Normal for summer?



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vivster said:
Normal for summer?

It's been quite some time since it hailed in the summer. I'd call it unexpected.



monocle_layton said:
vivster said:
Normal for summer?

It's been quite some time since it hailed in the summer. I'd call it unexpected.

We just had that last week. It's quite normal actually. Extreme weather, especially the times between Spring and Summer where it's sometimes hot and then cold again bring extreme weather conditions such as hail.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

vivster said:
monocle_layton said:

It's been quite some time since it hailed in the summer. I'd call it unexpected.

We just had that last week. It's quite normal actually. Extreme weather, especially the times between Spring and Summer where it's sometimes hot and then cold again bring extreme weather conditions such as hail.

I'm just glad I'm nowhere near Tornado Alley. I'd take hail any day of the week



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monocle_layton said:
vivster said:

We just had that last week. It's quite normal actually. Extreme weather, especially the times between Spring and Summer where it's sometimes hot and then cold again bring extreme weather conditions such as hail.

I'm just glad I'm nowhere near Tornado Alley. I'd take hail any day of the week

I'm glad that I live in a country where hail is the most extreme weather condition there is.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

Thunder storms during summer are not uncommon here, and we sometimes get hail to, but I've never seen snow when it was warmer than a few degrees celcius.

According to this site, snow should normally occur when it's below 32 degrees fahrenheit:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fcst/prcp/rs.rxml



Flilix said:

Thunder storms during summer are not uncommon here, and we sometimes get hail to, but I've never seen snow when it was warmer than a few degrees celcius.

According to this site, snow should normally occur when it's below 32 degrees fahrenheit:


It wasn't a significant amount of snow. It was barely enough to make a noticeable impact. Still left me surprised though



But how is that even possible? Unless it was much colder up where the clouds were.



monocle_layton said:

I woke up today to hear a bunch of pounding on my window. The sound of thunder was booming as I saw hail beating up the window next to my bed.

 

I remove my curtain, only to see rain drizzling, huge chunks of hail falling, heavy fog, thunderstorms, and SNOW in 77 degree weather.

 

Sweet ol' minnesota I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

 

That wasn't snow, it was graupel.