The one thing you are bound to remember is that it (rather, “they” – who can dodge all but one drop?) can be quite cold.
That’s because – way up high in the cumulonimbus tower – each rain drop is born as “hail.”
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The drops melt on their travel time through the troposphere. When they land in the Everglades they are invariably liquid.
But they are still cold.
Thus, an umbrella will keep you warm as well as dry.
Compare that to an early evening summer hail storm in Belgium.It starts as hail … and ends as hail.
At least this one did.
And trust me:
It was cold … especially in bare feet.
(Although by morning it melted, except for the plateful I saved in the freezer.)
5 comments:
i love the composition of the last pic. great job.
Very impressive entry. I have always thought why is it when we get a severe thunderstorm, we never get hail, rather we get really fat, cold drops.
I'm surprised the Glades don't get any hail. We get it 90 miles north and west of there in Troll County.
As it turns out, we do -- but it's relatively rare ... I haven't seen it in Collier County in the past 11 years I've lived here. But I've heard from others who have seen it this summer in Plantation, Pompano, and Palm Bay.
I would think that hail would be more likely to occur during a winter cold front showers when the cloud ceiling is lower and air underneath is drier.
We've been hailed on in the mountains a lot of times, but hail seems to fall less often here in the Basin. Maybe it melts and then evaporates on the way down...
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