Here is a picture I took around 5pm on my front sidewalk. Yep...it's hail. I know it's hard to believe that hail can be falling from the sky on April 10th in Florida when it's 75 degrees outside, but it happened. I have lived in Palm Beach County for over 7 years and have seen lots of odd weather events, but this one is a first for me.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Hail in South Florida??
Here is a picture I took around 5pm on my front sidewalk. Yep...it's hail. I know it's hard to believe that hail can be falling from the sky on April 10th in Florida when it's 75 degrees outside, but it happened. I have lived in Palm Beach County for over 7 years and have seen lots of odd weather events, but this one is a first for me.
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Hail is pretty common in strong thunderstorms, but not so much in your neck of the woods.
Check out Wikipedia's excellent entry on hail:
"Accordingly, hail is actually less common in the tropics despite a much higher frequency of thunderstorms than in the midlatitudes because the atmosphere over the tropics tends to be warmer over a much greater depth."
So typically the air in South Florida is too uniformly warm to premit formation of hail. I guess it shows how strong the recent cold snap really is!
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