In message , Alan White
writes
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:11:48 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

Yes, anything is better than horizontal rain.

Horizontal hail?


Make that "almost anything". Though hailstones are heavy enough that
it must be rare for them to fall very close to horizontally. There are a
few other meteorological phenomena that would be worse, as well.
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