My son standing in a haildrift.
Another haildrift.
Mound of hail washed out of a downpipe.
Yesterday afternoon we had a hailstorm.
Some time back I wrote about the wonderful intensity of highveld storms. Yesterday's was a beauty. Black clouds that built up quickly, massive bolts of lightning with thunderous thunder. Yes I wrote it like that intentionally.
And then the storm broke...
Hail on roofs so load you couldn't hear yourself think and about 70mm of rain (about 3 inches) in roughly half an hour.
The hail stones were pretty small compared to some that I have seen in my life - mostly under 10mm in diameter.
The rain washed a lot of the hail away but did leave some hail drifts to give an idea of how much hail fell.
We hardly ever get snow here so this is the closest that my kids get. They and their friends had a great time making hailmen and hailcastles and throwing hailballs at each other.
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