I thought I had experienced every weather phenomenon known to North America, but I was wrong.
We were showered with snow pellets on Saturday afternoon.
Since it was a new experience I decided to walk out into the snow pellet storm to record it. Lucky for me snow pellets are less dense that hail, so they do less damage to crops, unprotected heads, and cameras than hail of the same size would have done. Fortunately, I decided to ignore the forecasts of the blind liars meteorologists, who said we would only have rain and not dip below freezing, and took steps to protect some of the less hardy plants in our garden before the snow pellets arrived:
The snow pellets were followed by a dry thunder storm and then a light snow shower. Most of America is anxiously awaiting summer and we are still wondering when spring will arrive! Have you had unusual weather this spring?
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Tracy says
Hahaha – blind liars… awesome. Wouldn't you love to have a job where you could be wrong all the time and still get paid well? Glad the pellets didn't damage any of your plants!
Miss Debbie says
Snow pellets… now that is a new one. Glad you took precautions. It has been in the 90's here this week.That is a little too hot for me this early … it's not even June yet!
Jenni says
ok..so admittedly I had no idea there was such a thing as snow pellets. Hail yes..pellets no. I am further educated!! 🙂
Spring in the NW has been soggy and sunless. It's an El Nino year. I'm hoping for sun by August.