Hail in AUGUST?
Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:08 pm
My volunteering session, which ends at 4 o'clock, was ending, when suddenly it started HAILING. In August. (I live in Toronto, BTW) What's scary is that the hail was like the size of the big ice cubes that you make in the freezer.
What's more scary is that there's a tornado warning in northern toronto, I think.
It took me so long to get home, but at least I didn't have to walk. I was running out towards my mom's car, and in the ten minutes that I was out in the rain (the hail had stopped), my pants got soaked. Severely.
This year's weather is crazy, at least in here. We had snow in January, February, March and April. There were like, two days of hail in May. And now, hail in August.
What's more scary is that there's a tornado warning in northern toronto, I think.
It took me so long to get home, but at least I didn't have to walk. I was running out towards my mom's car, and in the ten minutes that I was out in the rain (the hail had stopped), my pants got soaked. Severely.
This year's weather is crazy, at least in here. We had snow in January, February, March and April. There were like, two days of hail in May. And now, hail in August.
Re: Hail in AUGUST?
Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:18 pm
Divine wrote:What's more scary is that there's a tornado warning in northern toronto, I think.
I think in all of Toronto, seeing as its in most of Southern Ontario.
It was life threatening weather in orangeville, people were told to get to cover immediately. I live near there, it was scary. Lightning and thunder like mad, and the sky sure looked like a tornado.
Thankfully, for me, its over now.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:25 pm
Seriously, don't come and live in England.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:11 pm
Igg wrote:Seriously, don't come and live in England.
Might start raining fish.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:12 pm
Well, that's Toronto for you.
And why is hail in August weird? You do realise rain will happen in the summer and sometimes it gets really bad so this shouldn't be suprising at all.
And why is hail in August weird? You do realise rain will happen in the summer and sometimes it gets really bad so this shouldn't be suprising at all.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:15 pm
Ammer wrote:Well, that's Toronto for you.
And why is hail in August weird? You do realise rain will happen in the summer and sometimes it gets really bad so this shouldn't be suprising at all.
Because it isn't really cold enough to have hail, it's summer. Rain, yes, but not hail. (I think) It's like if snow came down in June or something O_O.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:17 pm
I had it snow in July once at my old camp...
We get hail all the time in the summer. Farmers fear for their crops here... actually just outside of Wetaskawin a few farmers lost their crops to hail a couple weeks ago. Nasty business really.
We get hail all the time in the summer. Farmers fear for their crops here... actually just outside of Wetaskawin a few farmers lost their crops to hail a couple weeks ago. Nasty business really.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:22 pm
Divine wrote:Ammer wrote:Well, that's Toronto for you.
And why is hail in August weird? You do realise rain will happen in the summer and sometimes it gets really bad so this shouldn't be suprising at all.
Because it isn't really cold enough to have hail, it's summer. Rain, yes, but not hail. (I think) It's like if snow came down in June or something O_O.
The weather is weird but you know Toronto is going through a lot of odd weather patterns due to the pollution and what not, so expect more weird things coming our way.
I remember in Calgary it snowed in the middle of May.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:00 pm
Ooh. Hail. I haven't seen any of that for years. The last time it hailed (how far back having been aforementioned in my previous sentence), it was late at night during autumn, so it wasn't at all surprising. Of course, back then, we had autumn. >.> Now, it's just summer and, uh... summer.
At least it's no longer as it was (atmospherically) in the early '90s (in the cities, at least). x.x
Igg wrote:Seriously, don't come and live in England.
At least it's no longer as it was (atmospherically) in the early '90s (in the cities, at least). x.x
Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:06 pm
Hail in summer is normal. Strange, but normal. Hail doesn't normally happen in the winter at all, just the summer. It's weird, but true.
Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:05 am
With thunderstorms come hail, so it shouldn't really be a surprise, seeing as Toronto's been getting so many of them lately. That...and endless smog and heat advisories. :P
(Hey, it snowed in May in Vancouver once too!)
(Hey, it snowed in May in Vancouver once too!)
Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:19 pm
No, hail is a warm-weather phenomenon, as said earlier. It's caused by wind currents in the upper atmosphere, which blow raindrops higher into air, they then freeze (because though it's warm down here, it's cold up there), they fall, get blown back up with more rain, freeze, and the process repeats until they are too big for the wind to lift anymore, and then they plummet to the ground and smash through your car's windshield. It's uncommon where I live, but I've heard in areas more prone to tornadoes and tropical storms get it kind of often.
But...snow in May is just weird.
But...snow in May is just weird.
Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:23 pm
Yoshi wrote:(Hey, it snowed in May in Vancouver once too!)
Don't try and steal my thunder (No pun intended).
And yes, DiscordantNote, it is weird.
Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:06 pm
Christopher wrote:Igg wrote:Seriously, don't come and live in England.
Might start raining fish.
*ahem* Anyway, weather can be pretty nuts. It hailed on the 4th of July here in Jersey a few years back. Weird, especially considering the 90 degree temperature outside.
Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:56 pm
Try living in the Midwestern US. You'll see hail and tornado warnings at least twice or more a summer.