Take some pics of hail, get a bunch of requests to use them

Due to yesterday’s pictures of hail, I must have made some eyebrows go up, because when I got to work this morning, I had a handful of emails asking if the photos could be reproduced in weather mags and communities online. (This isn’t the first time. I took some pics in Kauai that were used in a travel guide for the island.)

One request for yesterday’s pictures that I found entertaining was for a site that is dedicated to the “green” movement. They wanted the pics to demonstrate changing weather conditions due to global warming, yakkity yak.

Too bad these kind of storms have been a staple in the metro area’s early summer weather since time began. Not that I disagree that global warming is occurring, it most definitely is, but I don’t think a summer hail storm is a symptom either.

Or is it?

(climatic music) Bum, bum, buuuuuuuuum!