Chapel Hill Hail Storm

Last Friday night (5/3/08) around 12:30 I was playing Mario Kart on the couch directly underneath the large and old skylight in my apartment when we got hit with an intense hail storm. It was unbelievably loud. M. Nature gave me a pretty serious pelting when I ventured out to recover the handful of hail pictured here.

Luckily the hail stones survived the week in my freezer because I kept forgetting to bring my calipers home from work. The largest one was just under an inch in diameter (9/10ths). Definitely the biggest hail I have ever seen, but pretty small in comparison to some of the photos from the area. A lot of people had golfball sized specimens.