hail down the storm

I was inside listening to Ravi Shankar music, when suddenly--out of blue skies and nowhere--it has begun to hail. Hard. Beautifully, at the same moment that the music picked up rhythm, as though the sitar was somehow calling down the storm. And now, a great flash of lightning, & the loudest crack of thunder (maybe the only time I've really heard a crack of thunder), almost at the same time.
The storm is right overhead.

Oh, but weather is glorious!