Picture from thefreedictionary.com
Hail: define by thefreedictionary.com as Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) in diameter.
Dear SG,
I wish I can say I’ve finally see snow but nah… not in Auckland. Here we get hail instead. Tiny cute little round ice pieces that falls from the sky. The first time I’ve seen it was around October I think. I thought it’s strange to see so many white petals falling on the floor, I assume the wind and the rain was causing the wild flowers to loose their petals. Andrew didn't believe me when I told him it's raining petals outside. He went out to investigate and found out that my white petals were actually tiny pieces of ice! We were pretty fascinated. (Mountain tortoises) hee...
The 2nd time I’ve see it was last Thursday 12th of April, the temperature was around 12 degree Celsius. It’s fortunate that the hails are pretty mild here. The ice is so tiny that it melts easily in our hands. (M&M does better than that even though they are only slightly bigger) I was too cold to go out of the house and take a photo of the hail. But I found one picture from the internet that best describe what I’ve seen here.
Picture from franklin.thefuntimesguide.comThe white spots are the hails and there isn't a lot of them, that's pretty much the same with what I've seen here. They melt pretty quickly and all that's left are just puddles of water.
we miss warm and sunny SG.
with love,
J
Spot the difference:
No hailing in SG, the only thing we hail is a cab.
In NZ, we had to call a cab, we can't really hail a cab from the road. The only hailing are from the sky. :)
2 comments:
the 1st time i experience Hailing was when i was @ westport, ireland. it was little painful!!
then the 2nd time had hail storm in dublin on st paddy's day!!
reali quite an experience i can say..
Thank goodness we were already indoor both time it hailed.
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