This happened about a month ago, that I saw the biggest hailstorm ever!
It was really scary and destructive.
Imagine millions of these ice sculpted moonrocks falling from the sky!
The day started off very casual and with the sun out, but in the distance I could see some dark clouds lurking. Since it was a warm summer day (About 30 degrees celsius warm) a thunderstorm would have been expected. But what was actually coming I did not expect at all.
Actually well . . . to a certain degree I knew what was coming, we were notified on the weather app that there would be hail that day, but it did not say how big hail and how intense it would be.
I don't have before and after shots, only the after ones.
The hail started off with a 0 to 100, straight to the maximum. Our backyard flooded with water and it was bizarre to see the ground turning white in the middle of summer with 30 degrees (celsius) outside.
Without the sound it would have been quite magical actually. Would have felt like Summer and Winter were mixing together with warm snow.
But in reality the sound was just terrible, couldn't even hear my own thoughts over the hail hitting our stain roof. And the thoughts of everything that was being destroyed outside didn't really let me enjoy this freak of nature sight.
The hail lasted for roughly 30 minutes. A full half hour of pure icy bombs falling from the sky!
You can see on my hands how big the hail pieces were. Absolutely Ginormous!
The hail itself was really nice and cold, very refreshing for our hot summer day. The ground turned back green very quickly due to the sun coming out again. I think the ground was white for only about an hour, before all the ice melted and it was like nothing had even happened.
Except there were other signs to show that something indeed had happened.
Absolute carnage had ensued in my garden. The greenhouse glass was broken, flowers and bushes were cut up and our outside sitting area suffered heavy damage from the artillery shells that fell from the sky.
Actually surprised that there are a few glass panels that didn't break
The plants have actually holes in their leaves, it looks like a snail or some other bug has had the munchies for this plant, but no, it god himself from up above who wanted a bite of my sorrel.
This flower was completely torn apart and I even caught the picture with the hail still melting around her corpse.
And this was not the only roof that got damaged. I forgot to take pictures, but our car roof was looking very similar to our outside rest area roof (just instead of holes, the car had dents).
Thanks for reading my post!
That was a rough hail storm 😕