Haha, White balls O Hail

Monday at 12:30 pm, I was awoken by what I thought was the sound of pine cones falling on the roof...
It was a nice plop, plop, to begin with, then all of a sudden, it was a shower, I jumped outta bed, (not a pretty sight), and raced to the window, Hail balls coming down, my wife had just left and I knew she was on the road somewhere, I was wondering how she and the car were fairing!
They were pretty good sized hail balls!
Lasted about 5 minutes, White everywhere, more of that global warming I've heard tell about? LOL