I mentioned yesterday I felt like I had almost frostbite in my hands. Now you can see what I was talking about. Luckily, most hail here on the West Coast isn't fist size but only the size of the tip of your index finger or less so it doesn't kill you. However, I can remember hail falling on a summer day in Mt. Shasta here in California where I had to get my kids under trees before it knocked us out. It went then from a hot summer day to suddenly dangerous hail and luckily there were some Shasta Red Fir to run under for cover that day. We were around 8000 to 9000 feet on the mountain. So, if it is dangerous hail anywhere get under a tree or car or in your car or carport or to shelter of some kind so you can survive it.
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Did it just snow in San Francisco? Chill out — it was hail
The San Francisco Examiner18 hours agoBy Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez on March 5, 2017 2:57 pm Did it just snow in San Francisco? In short, no, according to weather experts. But ...Did it just snow in San Francisco? Chill out — it was hail
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Did it just snow in San Francisco?
In short, no, according to weather experts.
But a dose of very fine, small hail hit San Francisco Sunday afternoon, and that was enough to stir excitement in The City — which hasn’t seen snow in years.
People took to social media to claim they saw snow in San Francisco, or to ask if anyone else had seen it.↓ Continue Reading Below[advertisement][advertisement]
“Is it actually snowing in San Francisco?!” tweeted Darryl Lewis, who identifies himself as an Ultra Street Fighter IV professional gamer. “Pretty sure it was briefly snowing at the end of that last downpour in San Francisco. Weird weather,” tweeted John Ripley, who describes himself as a San Francisco resident.
San Franciscan Rosemarie Sims posted a video of what appears to be hail falling on Facebook, and wrote “Snowing in San Francisco!”
Snow in The City is rare enough to almost be an historical event. The last time it snowed in San Francisco was perhaps 2011, according to the New York Times, and the last snow fall before that was 1976.
Sorry San Franciscans, but today was likely not another historic snow day.
Charles Bell, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in the Bay Area, told the San Francisco Examiner that the agency received hundreds of interested weather-watching tweets about this Sunday’s weather, but accounts of snow in San Francisco are unfortunately untrue.
“It’s been a wonderful day, people have been excited,” he said. “We had reports of small hail today, but as for snow reaching into The City, the snow level is too high at the moment.”
“Snow level” is the elevation where it’s cold enough that snow will fall. Right now in the Bay Area the snow level is somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 feet, Bell said. The highest point in San Francisco is Mount Davidson, which reaches 928 feet.
Bell said it was possible that very small hail pellets were falling, giving the impression of snowfall.
“We got a lot of reports of hail the size of rice grains,” Bell said. “It’s certainly possible you could get those melting together and re-freezing that looks” like snow.
Well, it may not be snowing in San Francisco, but the hail did leave some parts of The City looking like a late-season “Winter Wonderland,” due to piles of fallen ice.
But, “let it hail, let it hail, let it hail” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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Did it just snow in San Francisco? Chill out — it was hail
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