It hailed in Las Vegas today when it was 95 degrees outside

[Dan Druff]

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How does this occur?

Sometimes updrafts can force the rain water to such high altitudes that it freezes, and then once the ice balls form, it is heavy enough to where it crashes back down, and doesn't melt by the time it hits the ground.

An explanation is here: https://www.kvue.com/article/weather.../269-546665755

[accountinquestion]

Crazily hail going to be the new thing.

Inflation going to make everything more expensive to fix.

Sux to hear the truth but easier to accept for me.

[kewlJ]

I didn't see the hail today, but I have seen hail several times in just my 15 years in Vegas. Probably 3 or 4 times. I don't know exactly how it works with the upper atmosphere temperatures and all. But Hail is more common that accumulating snow, even just a covering that doesn't melt upon hitting the ground.

There are funny weather patterns in Las Vegas this time of year anyway. For several weeks to a month, sometimes 6 weeks, in August/Sept, our weather comes up from the south, from Arizona and Mexico, rather than from the west which is does most of the year. This is called the monsoon season, and you can feel the difference in humidity, and we often have rain and thunder showers during this time for an hour or so. If you have been in Vegas for the past week, you can feel the humidity starting to build. Keeps the temperature slightly lower, low 100's but there definitely is an increase in humidity.

Just in time for the opening of public schools tomorrow. Since I moved here, I have never got why schools open the second week in August instead of Labor day, like back east. I suppose there is a reason, but it doesn't make sense to me.

[Rob.Singer]

We are so blessed to receive more of kew's words of wisdom--not as the "Man About Town" with a whacky compass in his pocket this time, but as a degreed meteorologist.

Experiencing hail with temps in the 90's happens in the Phx. area every summer, sometimes several times and with the wind, it at times causes lots of trouble for cars outside. It's called Monsoon Season, as kew finally just discovered.

We're in Meridian, Id. right now and we had about a minute of hail in a vicious thunderstorm last Monday when it was in the lower 90's.

[MDawg]

UNKewlJ must have been in the tunnels. He may not have seen the hail, but he has to be mindful of the rainfalls lest he is swept away.

Light at the end of the tunnel
Like hundreds of people, Paul Vautrinot once lived in the dark tunnels below Las Vegas. Now he’s helping others climb out

UNKewlJ warns the people in his tunnel not to stray too far from the entrance, because he’s seen people get swept away in the dark-water waves that course through. When you’re far enough in, you can’t hear the rain. The first sounds are usually the echoes of jumbling barrels and the clatter of random debris loosened by the surging flood. By the time you hear people screaming “Water!” it might already be too late.

“The water gets this high,” UNKewlJ says, lifting his hand to the middle of his Asian abdomen. High enough to drown someone if he doesn't wake up in time.

[redietz]

I have experienced hail in summer heat a few times. Hail storms here have occasionally been wicked, bad enough to shatter bay windows and damage vehicles, especially (for some reason) near Bristol Speedway about 25 miles up the road. Homes were damaged badly by hail a few years ago. Cars completely pitted. Dealerships had issues.


Speaking of weather, I had another four-day LV stint with lowest temp 110. Forecast had been for 104-107, but it was 110-113. Those five or six degrees make a difference.

[mcap]

That shit happens all….the….time in the upper Midwest during the peak of the summer. Truth would be closer to anywhere but Las Vegas or a desert climate when it’s 95 rather than only in Vegas.

[Tasha]

You want to talk about crazy weather? In Miami, it often goes from HOT and sunny to dark and torrential rain in just SECOMDS. And in Miami, we have 80 degree weather in December.

[DGenBen]

You want to talk about crazy weather? In Miami, it often goes from HOT and sunny to dark and torrential rain in just SECOMDS. And in Miami, we have 80 degree weather in December.

One thing I really don’t get about Miami is why the blacks talk like beaners & the beaners talk like New Yorkers.

[accountinquestion]

UNKewlJ must have been in the tunnels. He may not have seen the hail, but he has to be mindful of the rainfalls lest he is swept away.

Light at the end of the tunnel
Like hundreds of people, Paul Vautrinot once lived in the dark tunnels below Las Vegas. Now he’s helping others climb out

UNKewlJ warns the people in his tunnel not to stray too far from the entrance, because he’s seen people get swept away in the dark-water waves that course through. When you’re far enough in, you can’t hear the rain. The first sounds are usually the echoes of jumbling barrels and the clatter of random debris loosened by the surging flood. By the time you hear people screaming “Water!” it might already be too late.

“The water gets this high,” UNKewlJ says, lifting his hand to the middle of his Asian abdomen. High enough to drown someone if he doesn't wake up in time.

Every tunnel dweller knows the water can rise at up to 2 feet a second. It is the math. There are no sounds of jumbling barrels. You can have to get out in as little as 15 seconds. It is the math. It is something real tunnel dwellers know all to well. It is what 15 years of tunnel dwelling tells you. You don't pop your head out a manhole for a looksy during a rain event - ever. Not without knowing your holes and which will be available to exit. You grab your float out (surface dwellers call it a bug out bag) bag and run as fast as you can to the exit which you should know inside and out.

[MisterV]

Hail, eh?

That's nothin'.

Back when Mt. St. Helens was active we had ash falls in the Pac NW.

That stuff covered everything and was incredibly abrasive.

You don't want to breath it and it destroys car engines.

Nasty: so hail?

Consider yourselves lucky.

"Back in my day...the skies dropped volcanic ash, and WE LIKED IT..."