Real hail

This Wednesday was really windy, rainy and haily! Yes, for the first time in our life, we saw real hail - small pieces of ice 'raining' down from the clouds. No, it's not snow - snow comes in flakes. Hail is solid pieces of ice falling down. In the photo below, you can see one - it looks almost as a small pearl. But our mamma told us that sometimes hail comes in much bigger pieces - so big that they hurt when they hit you and can hit holes in the leaves of trees. Big pieces of hail are especially unwelcome by all the garden-keepers, as they tend to damage severely the delicate leaves of plants.