San Francisco Hail

[moribundman]

Hail happens rarely here. Tonight it it hailed for about 5 minutes pretty heavily. In some spots a one inch layer hail covered the streets. The moribundman mobile Not the moribundman mobile

 

[Johnny]

You let "the moribundman mobile" set outside in hail.

 

[Pablo]

looks like sheattle

 

[huffmuds9320]

Yeah a rare sight in SF. The second picture, you can actually see hail falling?

 

[moribundman]

By the time the picture was taken it had stopped hailing. The small white blobs that you can see are tiny water droplets on the filter.

 

[Quattro Pete]

I'm guessing no damage to the car paint?

 

[moribundman]

I even got a pm about that. I'm one **** of a heartless *******!

 

[moribundman]

From that? No... You should have seen the hail damage in Munich about 20 years ago. Tens of thousands of cars got dimpled.

 

[Shannow]

twice a year we race out wiht blankets and what-not to cover the Shannowmobiles from hail. dozen times a yeat we see more than the above photos. Friends have a mitsubishi that looks like it was parked at the wrong end of a golf driving range.

 

[moribundman]

Shannow, in the past 12 years I've seen hail only a handful of times in SF. I've seen it snow once downtown, but the snow melted before it hit the ground. In '97 or '98 I saw snow on the coastal range, which was also unusual. I know hail storms from Germany. You know, it's a hot summer day, you are at the local swimming hole, suddenly it gets dark and you get pelted by hail. It's very refreshing! This does not (yet ) happen here in California.

 

[OriginHacker21]

Up here in Northern Los Angeles (Santa Clarita, Northridge) we had hail come down for about 10 minutes - looked like those pictures above but melted away pretty quickly. People were freaking out pulling over to the side of the road, it was pretty funny. One thing for sure - it was 38 degrees this morning. Pretty cold for California weather!!! Reminds me of the midwest were I grew up.

 

[moribundman]

A bit North, in Marin, people managed a 28 car pile-up when it suddenly started snowing the same night we had hail in SF.

 

[Shannow]

moribundman, I heard about the snow on today's news. as to Snow...my second birthday, it snowed. In Summer, Downunder, on Christmas day.