Southern California??????????????????

[LehighValleyForcaster]

What the heck.....................this is suppose to happen in the Northeast!

This happened on Nov. 13th of this year................LOL

[weatherlover427]

I have some more pics of the storm's aftermath, copyright http://www.latimes.com :

[Colin]

Wow...awesome pictures! :o

[Guest]

What the heck.....................this is suppose to happen in the Northeast!

This happened on Nov. 13th of this year................LOL

I don't think a hail storm of that proportion has ever or would ever occur in the Northeast.

[JCT777]

I don't think a hail storm of that proportion has ever or would ever occur in the Northeast.

That's true, but I think LVF's point was that you would expect to see people bundled up and shoveling frozen precip in the Northeast in November, moreso than in Southern California. That was definitely one heck of a hailstorm!

[weatherlover427]

They say it happens every 100 years or so ... I guess this is it.

[weatherluvr]

I don't think a hail storm of that proportion has ever or would ever occur in the Northeast.

Yes, in fact it has. In June 1985, a major hailstorm occured in Springfield, MA, with several inches of nearly baseball-size hail that took the better part of the day to melt. I ran out to clear a storm drain in front of my house that clogged with leaves, when it started again, and I got beaned and had a nice bruise on my forehead.

[RNS]

A hail storm of that magnitude is rare for any location...let alone the LA area...even the parts of the country which are the most susceptible to hail producing thunderstorms rarely ever see such an event.

[RNS]

and yes... I think what LV forecaster was referring to is the fact that a scene similar to that is most common in the northeastern part of the country...from a major snow event...not hail.

[Stormsfury]

A hail storm of that magnitude is rare for any location...let alone the LA area...even the parts of the country which are the most susceptible to hail producing thunderstorms rarely ever see such an event.

Bingo ... I've been in the Charleston area for all of my 31 years, and NEVER have seen hail accumulated as deep as the recent storms that hit LA ... If one were to place bets on where the most likely place to see hail piled up to those depths, Colorado, IMHO, is the location to go in the USA. (I've seen more video of deep hail there than anywhere else in the USA), with Texas and Oklahoma a close second.

SF

[weatherlover427]

People here don't know how to react when something like this happens in this area because it's so infrequent. That's all there is to it.

[Stormsfury]

People here don't know how to react when something like this happens in this area because it's so infrequent. That's all there is to it.

Nor would about 99% of people if a hailstorm of that proportions hit anywhere else .. it's very unusual.

SF

[RNS]

Nor would about 99% of people if a hailstorm of that proportions hit anywhere else .. it's very unusual.

SF

pretty much...

[ColdFront77]

A hail storm of that magnitude is rare for any location...let alone the LA area...even the parts of the country which are the most susceptible to hail producing thunderstorms rarely ever see such an event.

If I am not mistaken, the location in the United States that sees the most hail is the Cheyenne, Wyoming area.

[RNS]

If I am not mistaken, the location in the United States that sees the most hail is the Cheyenne, Wyoming area.

right...generally its the rockies...and central plains.