Weird weather

Today was a very strange weather day. It was beautiful most of the day - blue skies with big poofy white clouds. I started hearing these weird noises from inside, sorta like rain, except that the drops sounded MASSIVE and there was almost too much time between drops for it to be rain. I went outside and it was hailing!! Whaaaa? It wasn't huge hail, slightly larger than a pea, but it was raining at the same time, BIG drops and it was wicked cold rain. The electrician was here at the time and he was just as baffled as we were, which tells me it's quite out of the ordinary because he's been living here for a looooong time.
The other weird thing about this rain was that it was blue skies and white puffy clouds all around. There was one small suspicious looking cloud, but other than that it was a sunny beautiful day.
Apparently it hailed in Anchorage yesterday, too, except that they got a thunderstorm along with it. I'm so jealous!! I love thunderstorms! It's VERY out of the ordinary to get a thunderstorm up here. Hopefully I'll get a few late season storms at home.