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Hailstones the size of gumballs
By adamg - 8/19/11 - 2:29 pm
Storm rakes the Back Bay. Photo by Drew.
An astonished Government Center worker e-mailed about the hail around 3:30 p.m. To be more exact, he wrote:
HAILSTONES THE SIZE OF GUMBALLS IN GOV'T CENTER!!!
At least one hailstone the size of a golf ball came down on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing - look at the size of that thing at the end of this video.
Elsewhere, reports poured in end-of-days torrents and pea-sized hail from the Fenway to Chinatown.
A state trooper and police dog were in a cruiser hit by lightning on Perimeter Road at Logan Airport. Both are reported OK, however.
A tree came down on Dartmouth Street near Warren in the South End.
Ground-eye view of the storm, from the BPL main library. Photo by Penny Cherubino.
Ed. note: No hail here on the Roslindale/Hyde Park frontier, but tons of thunder and lightning.
It's called a squall
By adamg - 6/20/10 - 3:39 pmSome major hail on the South Shore this afternoon. Also, lightning hit a house on Central Avenue in Braintree, sparking a huge fire that brought in fire crews from surrounding communities, including Boston.
Via Channel 5.
Oh, hail no
By adamg - 4/19/10 - 8:31 amThe scene yesterday in Jamaica Plain, as captured by Truck Stop Tea Party:
Even the weathermen are getting bored with all our weather
By adamg - 7/3/08 - 11:18 amHow else to explain why at least one referred to penny-sized hail the other day? Jim Sullivan attempts to rain on that parade:
... [T]he correct equivalents for hailstones use sporting equipment. Golf balls, baseballs, softballs, basketballs. That's the scale. Anything below the size of a golf ball is just hail. Anything above the size of a basketball is just ridiculous. ...
Jim also provides proper units of measurement for tumors, Glenn Davis's behind and his own blog posts.
Mothball-sized hail!
By adamg - 6/24/08 - 4:03 pmOK, I admit I'm posting this mainly to run a headline that says "Mothball-sized hail!" because, really, when's the last time you saw a headline like that? Let alone actual mothball-sized hail, as reported by a woman in Seekonk?
As I type this, it is pouring here in Southborough, although it's nowhere near as bad as yesterday, when we couldn't see to the other side of the reservoir along Rte. 9.
UPDATE: Apparently mothballs are a common unit of hail measurement. Go figure.
What's the equivalent of a French Toast alert for hailstones the size of golf balls?
By adamg - 5/27/08 - 1:30 pmWorking at home today, I get to enjoy StormPanic 5 roughly every 90 seconds alerting us to the fact that Palmer or Springfield will be wiped off the face of the earth in 19 minutes. At one point, I swear Dick Albert said something like "If it gets really dark out there, better come inside."
