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By adamg - 4/9/22 - 3:48 pm
Hail in Cambridge

Rachel Anne Miller watched the hail come down near Porter Square in Cambridge as the storm moved through around 2:45 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 7/31/19 - 5:07 pm
By adamg - 8/2/17 - 5:47 pm
Hail in Jamaica Plain

"So much hail!" Becca reports from Jamaica Plain.

There was a bit of the old flash flooding at Forest Hills and a tree came down at Florida and Wrentham streets in Dorchester.

By adamg - 1/4/17 - 8:40 pm

Chris Caesar watched the hail come down in Malden around 8 p.m.

By adamg - 4/8/16 - 12:11 pm

Niobium shows us some of the hail that fell on Lexington around noon.

By adamg - 3/18/16 - 5:41 pm
Rainbow over Boston Harbor

Neil was among those who enjoyed the rainbow (or in some cases, rainbows) after the rain squall that moved through around 4:45 p.m. - heralding the polar front that sets us up for Sunday's nor'easter. He had a front-row seat overlooking the Boston Fish Pier and the harbor.

More photos of the squall and the rainbow action, with bonus hail video from the Back Bay (and now with photos from the second rainbow round around 6:30 p.m.):

By adamg - 8/4/15 - 5:36 pm
Large hailstone in Jamaica Plain

Michael Halle shows off the big-ass hailstone that fortunately did not fall on him in Jamaica Plain, because that would have left a mark.

Also see:
Gang, gang, the hail's all here.

By adamg - 8/4/15 - 4:49 pm
By adamg - 8/4/15 - 4:11 pm

Quarter-sized hail in West Roxbury, photo by Daniel Guzman: Read more.

By adamg - 5/12/15 - 7:57 pm
Hail in Quincy

Cat City shows one of the hailstones that fell on Quincy this evening.

Down by Legacy Place in Dedham, it didn't hail or rain, but it sure looked like it was going to: Read more.

By adamg - 8/7/14 - 1:24 pm

Allston hail

Waltham hail

Paul Weiskel shows us a hailstone that fell around 1 p.m. today.

Bridie Johnson, meanwhile, videoed the hail falling on Everett Street in Allston during the storm.

By adamg - 5/4/14 - 4:59 pm
Hail

Darryl Houston shows us some of the hail that fell on Hyde Park around 4:40 p.m.

By adamg - 11/8/13 - 12:34 pm
Hail

Colleen Glenney provides proof of a lunchtime hail storm in Brighton today.

Matt Soleyn reports rain and sleet in the Fenway.

By adamg - 7/18/12 - 9:03 pm

Hail falling behind Saugus Town Hall.

By adamg - 8/19/11 - 3:29 pm

Storm rakes the Back Bay. Photo by Drew.Storm rakes the Back Bay. Photo by Drew.

An astonished Government Center worker e-mailed about the hail around 3:30 p.m. To be more exact, he wrote:

HAILSTONES THE SIZE OF GUMBALLS IN GOV'T CENTER!!!

At least one hailstone the size of a golf ball came down on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing - look at the size of that thing at the end of this video.

Elsewhere, reports poured in end-of-days torrents and pea-sized hail from the Fenway to Chinatown.

A state trooper and police dog were in a cruiser hit by lightning on Perimeter Road at Logan Airport. Both are reported OK, however.

A tree came down on Dartmouth Street near Warren in the South End.

Copley Square in the stormGround-eye view of the storm, from the BPL main library. Photo by Penny Cherubino.

Ed. note: No hail here on the Roslindale/Hyde Park frontier, but tons of thunder and lightning.

By adamg - 6/20/10 - 4:39 pm

Some major hail on the South Shore this afternoon. Also, lightning hit a house on Central Avenue in Braintree, sparking a huge fire that brought in fire crews from surrounding communities, including Boston.

Via Channel 5.

By adamg - 4/19/10 - 9:31 am

The scene yesterday in Jamaica Plain, as captured by Truck Stop Tea Party:

By adamg - 7/3/08 - 12:18 pm

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.

By adamg - 6/24/08 - 5:03 pm

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.

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