How else to explain why at least one referred to penny-sized hail the other day? Jim Sullivan attempts to rain on that parade:

... [T]he correct equivalents for hailstones use sporting equipment. Golf balls, baseballs, softballs, basketballs. That's the scale. Anything below the size of a golf ball is just hail. Anything above the size of a basketball is just ridiculous. ...

Jim also provides proper units of measurement for tumors, Glenn Davis's behind and his own blog posts.

OK, I admit I'm posting this mainly to run a headline that says "Mothball-sized hail!" because, really, when's the last time you saw a headline like that? Let alone actual mothball-sized hail, as reported by a woman in Seekonk?

As I type this, it is pouring here in Southborough, although it's nowhere near as bad as yesterday, when we couldn't see to the other side of the reservoir along Rte. 9.

UPDATE: Apparently mothballs are a common unit of hail measurement. Go figure.

Working at home today, I get to enjoy StormPanic 5 roughly every 90 seconds alerting us to the fact that Palmer or Springfield will be wiped off the face of the earth in 19 minutes. At one point, I swear Dick Albert said something like "If it gets really dark out there, better come inside."