September 27, 2009

Summer's reign pretty much ended today. At noon, I was outside mowing the lawn and its was bit humid and maybe 80 degrees F. In the afternoon, clouds moved in and there was heavy rain from time to time. After dinner, we reclined to watch some programs on TV, and about 8PM, we saw a bunch of flickering occurring outside. And then rain poured down massively, turning into the droning pelt of hail. It was unbelievable to hear such a deafening sound all throughout the house; winds also picked up tremendously. Karen checked the Weather Underground website and noticed that our region of the city was under a pink section of precipitation; this is beyond the red level. The hail intensified and then subsided after about 15 minutes; but what an unnerving 15 minutes to hear that sound non-stop; kind of scary, definitely unsettling.

Looking out our windows after the hail passed, we could see about 3 or 4 inches of standing hail. It was hard to see though as most of it was translucent and not opaque; so in the street lights, it glistened like broken glass. The temps fell to 50 that night, and the forecast did not have anything higher than 60 in it for the next week.