About the Cries from the other side post, I know it isn't my place to say this or anything but hail actually isn't very strange summer weather, in fact hail is only possible during the warmer seasons. In colder seasons it falls before it can get big enough to be declared hail, in warmer seasons what would normally fall gets pushed up by the warmer air and repeats until it is large enough to be considered hail!
Sorry, it just sorta bugged me.