Parts of New Jersey were pummeled by a massive hail storm on Monday afternoon, leaving it looking as if a June blizzard blew through with inches of dime-sized pellets piling up.
Washington Township residents were seen on their driveways breaking out the snow shovels and officials sent out bulldozers to act as snow plows to clear the streets after severe thunderstorms pounded the region. Children were seen forming hailballs.
It was a day for snow boots and a jacket as several inches fell in what’s being looked at as one freak storm.
Plowing snow, ice, whatever you want to call it on a street in Washington Township in June. It wasn’t an understatement to say folks in the neighborhood were shocked.
Neighbors who found themselves shoveling all Monday afternoon, said the hail started coming down fast and furious at around 2:30 p.m.
The strong storms continued to push through up until 4 p.m., but CBS predicts more strong storms could continue to pop up as the night progressed, bringing even more hail, along with the potential for severe thunderstorms.
It’s been a very wet June in the tri-state. Central Park has recorded more than 5 inches of rain already this month.
(Source: WCBSTV)
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this is amazing- because it says in gemara that before moshiach theres going to be very weird weather-and snow/hail i june is the eppitamy of weird!!lets daven that this is the true simon of moshiach!!
Is it Torahdik to call it a “freak storm”?
Torahyiddle, The word freak in Lashon Kodesh is “Meshuneh”. This word appears many times in the Gemarah.
But in modern language, most people don’t use “freak” in the same context as “meshuneh”….
I think it would probably be more important to learn how to spell, before learning about the science of the weather, though menachem__’s technical description was rather enlightening.
As for the actual translation of the word freak in Lashon Hakodesh, a.k.a. Hebrew, I would probably say that Meshunah means strange, not freak, but I don’t think that using the word freak to mean strange is a problem, as opposed to using it in place of other less appropriate words.