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You think yesterday's sudden (and relatively brief) downpour was nuts in the city? Well, in Bergen County, NJ, Mother Nature decided to spring three inches of hail onto a number of towns, including Westwood. The Record reported, "Snow plows that had sat idle since March were pressed into service in Emerson, Westwood, Ridgewood and elsewhere to clear penny-sized hail that piled inches high in streets and municipal parking lots." A fire chief also expressed surprise when his sister-in-law called him about her car being stuck, "I’m on the phone and she’s saying that she’s freezing cold, that there’s ice. I’m like, what is she talking about? It’s June. What does she mean there’s Ice?” WABC 7 even has footage of kids making snowmen! It's unclear why so much hail was produced, but National Weather Service meteorologist John Murray suggested "that the storm clouds were relatively high in the sky — 25,000 to 30,000 feet up — exacerbating the instability in the atmosphere." Drier weather is expected today.
Hail, Yes: Hail Makes June Appearance In NJ
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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Actually, hail is a pretty common form of precipitation for the summer. Upper-level disturbances (common in the summertime) cause particles of precipitation to form that freeze at high altitudes, then they get heavy and fall, and upward breezes push them back up where they form additional coatings of ice, then get heavy and fall again, etc. etc. They bounce around in the clouds until they get heavy enough to fall as hail.
I can remember hailstorms in upstate NY in July and August. It's just funny that they had to plow the streets...
Why never near me? This looks liek so much fun.
I remember one summer at camp, mid-July, a crazy thunderstorm, in the middle of which it began hailing. It got very cold and the hail was huge. Good times.
That is either a misquote, or an NWS employee who doesn't know jack-shit about thunderstorms. The amount of instability combined with the atmospheric temperature/moisture/wind profile will determine the height of the storm, not the other way around. The hail was a result of steep lapse rates, cold upper level temperatures, and decent upper-level shear.
Yes, that was a curious explanation.
People, people, this is clearly an attempt to destroy NJ by an angry lesser deity because s/he watched an episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
All Hail New Jersey.