Hail In L.A. (Dude, What Happened Last Night?)

I did hear a tremendous racket last night but was too groggy/sleepy to figure out what it was ("Wow, that rain is coming down hard," I thought) and went back to sleep. When I went outside to pick up the morning paper I caught these pictures of hail outside my home in northeast Los

Angeles (less than 5 miles from downtown L.A.).