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Hail Storm ~ July 27th 2008 

This afternoon about 1.00PM the skies opened up and we experienced a hail storm. They are not that unusual in our region. The storm passed and there was a lull. Then there were a few claps of thunder and a second hail storm began. This was quite an intense storm.

Sootie went outside to investigate despite his initial fright with the thunder claps. He took cover under the barbecue but when the storm was finishing he decided it was all too much and raced back inside, Shao Ping and I took a few photographs and some movies on the Casio digital camera. I took a screen shot of the weather radar. The storm came up from the south.

 
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Hail on the deck
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Backyard
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Comparison
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Hail on the deck
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Garden
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Hail on the grass
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Front garden
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Sootie flees
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Sootie flees
Radar

Radar
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Video
 
 
 

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Photographs taken by John Leonard Larkin.