what? the hail?

The National Weather Service was forecasting for cooler temperatures with some breezy, wet conditions for this evening – we got a bit more than that. I first noticed lightning, which is rare for Seattle. Then the wind picked-up. More lightning. A bit of “rattle, rattle” sounded on the roof. Nothing serious, just amusing.  I ran downstairs to let Anne know that it sounded like it might be hailing. By the time I got downstairs, hail larger than Cocoa Puffs (as much as I’d like to claim the “Cocoa Puff” metric as a “man measurement”, Anne devised it!) was banging against the side of the house. I called my neighbor nearby to suggest that this was somehow his fault; he wasn’t in much of a joking mood as his wife’s car was parked outside. It was probably the most pronounced hail storm I’ve seen in the Seattle area. Just when we thought it was over, it would start again. I’m sure it only lasted a couple of minutes, but it seemed to go on-and-on. Three hours later, much of the hail is still on the ground; it is melting, slowly. The temperature? 36 degrees – burrrrr!