This is why we can't have nice plants

[geoviki]

This is not snow, but hail.  There was wind swirling, and lighting blasting very close by.  I'm waiting for locusts next.  We have no garden left - no tomatoes, no flowers, pretty near no leaves.

Looking out my back door:




And from the front door:

Comments

[cordelia_v]

Oh, sweetie. I'm so sorry about the plants. Sounds like you'd need a hothouse or giant cages to protect them, where you live (which is impossible for a good-sized garden).

*pets you and hates on the winter*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly winter, though. It was 83 degrees when this let loose.

The air smells very herbal from the large garden remains just above us (behind the backyard fence). Now there's a family who's crying big fat tears right now.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? How can there be hail when it's in the 80s!? O_o Did it melt really fast after you took those pictures? (I am confused by this weather.)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

It's really likely to hail when it's hot and unsettled with thunderstorms. Hail forms way high up in the cold atmosphere and churns around up there in cells, getting bigger and bigger until it falls on the innocent. We're known for volatile weather here - it comes from not being near an ocean. You're a California boy, you have totally different (and probably equally weird) weather.

It took over a day to melt, even though it was in the 60s the entire time. And if you drive a mile in any direction from us, there was no hail, just rain. Very local. Lucky us, huh?

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, interesting! I had no idea. Maybe that's why it's hailed here a couple times but never snowed (at least in my lifetime).