Hail And East Coast Storms Seem To Be The Trend This Spring. Videos

Not a snowstorm. This is a remarkable hail storm in
Parker, Colorado earlier this month. 

So far this spring, the traditional mega-tornadoes in the Middle and the South of the nation have been blessedly absent.

It's been a slower than average tornado season. Oklahoma, normally ground zero for tornado destruction has had only a few twisters, none of them particularly destructive.

It seems this spring, the trend has been both big huge hail storms and tornadoes in odd places, like the Northeast.

The confirmed tornado count from last Tuesday's outbreak in the Northeast is up to nine. On May 4, New Hampshire had its longest tracked tornado in its history.

Here in Vermont, no tornadoes so far this year, but we had our share of severe weather back on May 4 with a couple of supercells, and some remarkably destructive microbursts and downbursts in a few locations.

Following is a few videos of this spring's severe weather trends

 Imagine dealing with hail so deep you have to shovel the driveway on a sunny, warm spring day:



Here's one news report showing the hail, and the plows that were out because of how deep it was.



Here's another  news report in the aftermath of the Colorado hail:



Going back to last week, more footage is emerging from the unusually large severe weather outbreak in the Northeast last week. Here's a video of the challenges of driving through either a tornado or microburst in Southbury, Connecticut:



Beacon Falls, Connecticut got an EF-1 tornado. Not sure if this video was taken inside the tornado, or the supercell thunderstorm's microburst. Still dramatic though. And I know that type of deck furniture in the foreground. It's fairly heavy and shouldn't move around in the wind, but...