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k3ng · 08-10-2005, 08:00 AM

It hailed here today. Amazing. You'll might be thinking, 'big deal!'. Well, the 'here' I'm referring to is the country of Malaysia where I am, which is in the tropics. Tropical hail. Damn.

If you're still confused, simply putting it, this country is summer all year round. And it friggin hailed. My garden was full of ice, which stayed there for quite a while instead of melting away.

Are the scientists right about global warming? Is this planet's weather getting wierder?? Who knows, but today, I saw hail. I should've ran out and tested what it felt like. (hey, we seldom ( or never more like it ) get stuff like this. Don't blame me for being curious what ice feels like at high speeds from the sky.)

Tropical hail dudes!! WHOOOO!!

Ben · 08-10-2005, 08:06 AM

Sometimes hail is OK if it's not coming down too heavily.

If it is... Ouch.

Gehrig · 08-10-2005, 08:59 AM

I'm in Calgary where we had a hundred year flood this year. Hail happens occassionally as well.

Not sure if this is related to global warming, which by the way we don't see much of in Canada from December to April.

Keep smilin'

mammamaia · 08-10-2005, 09:29 AM

given the state of the planet these days, k3, i wouldn't advise tasting that hail!

BookLover · 08-10-2005, 09:42 AM

If you have seen the papers, India's weather has gone totally awry.

Mumbai, which is coastal and people sweat the whole year round, set a record for the heaviest rainfall in India.

It rained so heavily that hundreds of people lost their lives. People were stranded and many people spent a whole day sitting in the bus! It was horrible.

And nobody ever imagined that Mumbai will get such heavy rains!

k3ng · 08-10-2005, 10:27 AM

maia.. i wasn't planning on tAsting.. just testing how it feels like on ur body...

Yeah, India's weather is weird... but this is just rtoo wierd for ice to be falling on a country that averages 35 degrees celcius daily. just imagine it having a freak blizzard next in the tropics.. i cant wait.

speculative · 08-10-2005, 09:18 PM

Weird weather? Awesome... Nothing like weather to humble a man. We get plenty humbled where I'm from. We have a saying: "Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes."

Many places make this claim, however we can back it up: http://montanakids.com/db_engine/pre...l+Climate+Info

Also, http://www.state.mt.us/dma/des/Library/PDM/10%20Winter%20Storms%20Hazard%20Profile.pdf#search ='Loma%20world%20record%20temperature%20change'

Quote:

Great Falls went from -32°F to +15°F in 7 minutes, a national record.

journyman161 · 08-10-2005, 10:23 PM

Melbourne is not quite as extreme as Montana, but we have the same saying. Anyone from elsewhere in Oz will tell you that Melb weather is changeable.

I like the way it is here. I lived in other places where the weather would change seasonally & stay that way for weeks! Annoying & boring at the same time.

Melbourne can go from 30 to 16 in an hour or so as a front comes in.

But weather around the world has been playing up for some time. There's something going on, whether it's human-caused global warming or just the normal long-term cycles.

We tend to think the earth has always been the way it is, but that simply isn't so. we've come to understand some of the causes for the cold snap that hit europe a few hundred years back, but there are longer cycles than that.

When looking at global temperatures, it turns out the period we think of as normal, has actually been at a low extremity of the curve for the past few million years, with an avaerage global temp of about 13 degrees C.
Over hundreds of millions of years, we can see there have been only 3 brief periods where the temp average was so low. For most of the time, it has been at an average of about 20C. The cool dips have been both few & brief in comparison.

So, on average, the earth is used to receiving &/or generating, much more energy, which would imply stronger weather patterns.

Unfortunately, it looks like the weather is only going to get stranger, with more freak weather all around while the system adjusts back to its more usual conditions.

Drzava · 08-10-2005, 10:44 PM

It didn't even get up to 80 here today. A few years back in August or so it was 112, global warming or not, cooler summers are much appreciated here

k3ng · 08-10-2005, 11:20 PM

-32F to 15F in 7 minutes??? Cool... Must've felt weird I bet.

lisajane · 08-11-2005, 02:39 AM

Weather here in Melbourne has been slightly out of the norm as of late... either that or we've finally reached winter. Hailed yesterday, massive rain the day before that, today it's only 11 degrees. It also snowed yesterday in places it shouldn't be snowing, ie, the beach.

I think it was about 5 degrees when I left for work this morning (6am).

Also had rather large flooding back in February, also slightly out of the norm...

mammamaia · 08-11-2005, 10:30 AM

re tasting/testing, i was just joking about the pollution, k3...

i saw pix of the great snowfall in australia yesterday!... imagine snowmen and snowball fights down under?... never would've... this planet is really starting to get back at us for f'ing it up...

TsuTseQ · 08-11-2005, 11:37 AM

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I'm in Calgary where we had a hundred year flood this year. Hail happens occassionally as well.

Not sure if this is related to global warming, which by the way we don't see much of in Canada from December to April.

Or the last 3 days here. It's been cold. I keep expecting it to snow, which would not be surprising really. It doesn't look like the weekend is going to get any better.

I'm stunned that it hailed in Malaysia. I lived in Singapore for two years, so I know what the weather is like there: humid and unchanging. Wow.