Sure, we see hail occasionally in Redlands, but those five minute hail “storms” are nothing compared to the hail we have here. We’ve been having some stormy weather lately, and the average temperature here daily is less than 10 degrees C (about 50 F). It’s COLD. There had been some rumours going around about the chance of it snowing today, but I didn’t really believe them. It had been raining and hailing hard all night, and still raining when we started breakfast. We thought it was cool when we heard some hail hit the window and could see the fragments of ice slide down the window. That lasted for like a minute max, and then it started to clear up. By the time we left for school, it had pretty much stopped, but we begged for a ride in to school anyway.
It rained off and on all day at school, but just in time for school to let out, it started to pour. Luckily we didn’t have to wait too long for the bus, and it was nice and warm inside. My stop was coming up when I heard the clang of ice on metal as the bus was barraged with hail. I got off at the bottom of the hill, and having received a TXT from dad telling me to go ahead and walk up to the house, was not looking forward to the hike up the hill. My raincoat kept most of the wet out, but it was still freezing cold. There were piles of hail everywhere, and a car passed me going down with hail covering its roof. It was fun to step in the piles of hail and listen to the crunch. I got to the house and went around back to let myself in, and it looked like it had snowed. The entire deck was covered in hail, and it was still raining.
I made myself a snack and listened to the rain and hail come down. Dad eventually got home, and we warmed ourselves up before being picked up by Mom, Margaret and William to go out to eat at South of The Border, a nice Mexican food place (probably the only decent one in Christchurch).
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