Hail, yes: Chunks of ice rain down during storm in Florida

It's been that kind of year. An iceberg the size of Los Angeles broke off the main coast of Antarctica last week. On Saturday, Florida residents were shoveling ice after a hailstorm raged through Daytona Beach.

"I moved south to get away from this. Who shovels in flip-flops?" a man asks as he clears the pathway in front of his home in a video posted to Twitter on Saturday.

"I thought he moved to Florida to escape the snow," the man's daughter, Meribeth Evans, says off-camera.

Rainstorms that marched across the Florida peninsula on Saturday morning caused golf ball-sized hail in Volusia County, WFTV reported. Some smaller hailstones covered the ground, causing what looked to be piles of snow in the Sunshine State.

According to StormerSite, which tracks hailstorms, the Daytona Beach area has had five instances of hail in 2021. Saturday's shower of ice measured 1.75 inches, the website reported.

Saturday's rain, caused by a cold front, will cause cooler temperatures in Florida beginning Sunday, WFTV reported.

Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

Reader Comments

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-03-08T22:24:14Z

They act as if it's rare to get hail here in March. I'd guess that's the second most common month for it with only April and/or May having more.

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-03-08T22:31:10Z

Rowan Cocoan Edit post quick research:

They act as if it's rare to get hail here in March. I'd guess that's the most common months for it would be from March* through June.

Severe weather in Florida is quite common, especially during the spring and summer months as temperatures warm. [Link]

*Especially in a warm winter which we're certainly having.

R.C.

ReRan · 2021-03-09T13:15:27Z

Rowan Cocoan I always thought hail was more common in hot weather. Up here we get snow in winter, hail in summer, if it's really hot.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-03-09T14:36:27Z

ReRan IMHO, it's always hot weather here. RC

Gnostic · 2021-03-09T11:57:10Z

In MA we call that sleet not hail if that photograph represents what FL received.

Rabelais · 2021-03-09T18:20:51Z

I guess the guy in the photo and flip flops brought his snow shovel with him when he moved south.

Rowan Cocoan ·

· 2021-03-09T19:51:39Z

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-03-09T19:52:47Z

Rabelais Naw. Around here, we use them for the dead cockroaches.

Actually, I agree with you. When they moved down here* the wife surely gave hubby a lot of shit. It probably took him 30 minutes to dig the thing out from the garage or shed, and he only did that so as to prove to the wife as to how right he was to bring it in the first place.

Meanwhile, if he had left them there, what would have happened? This ain't Alaska, the damn things surely melted about 50 minutes later, max!

*Probably from AB (aka Alberta)* (Directed to those who scuffed my fun scuffing of Canadians in Florida.)

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