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Hail the size of golf balls and even grapefruit? The science of how tiny ice crystals grow dangerously large

  • Written by Brian Tang, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
Hail the size of golf balls and even grapefruit? The science of how tiny ice crystals grow dangerously largeGetting hit by solid ice the size of a baseball would hurt.Joe Mindluge/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Hail the size of grapefruit shattered car windows in Johnson City, Texas, in May 2024. In June, a storm chaser found a hailstone almost as big as a pineapple. Even larger hailstones have been documented in South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska. Hail has damaged...

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