Lightning and Hail Strangle Western New York
Aug 20th, 2008 by Jennifer Lynn
The weather this summer has just been plain bizarre. We have one gorgeous day which is quickly replaced by a week of rain, and evenings glow with non-stop sizzling cloud to ground lightning. At least my veggie garden is benefiting from all this rain. I now have a pumpkin patch-on-steroids invading my backyard and acorn squash vines stubbornly creeping all over the driveway.
Western New York really has been hammered this summer by severe lightning, with some pretty odd hail storms gracing our area. It seems as if one storm blows through just in time for the next to take over. A fellow Western New Yorker snapped this photo when we got pelted by enormous hail.
Should I start building an ark soon?
=^..^=
Southern Ontario has been pretty much the same; I’m just glad that all of this precipitation is coming down as rain rather than snow. Can you imagine how much snow would be on the ground if we were in January rather than August?
I think the golfball sized hail might actually hurt when it hit you (I was out in pea sized hail last friday).
Wow, that hail is HUGE! I’m glad you’re ok.