Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an atmospheric scientist, I study and teach about extreme weather and its risks. Here’s how hail forms, how hailstorms may be ...

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Welcome Back to The Climate Classroom! Last time, we explored how hail forms when cold water droplets collide inside thunderstorms. Today, we’ll discover how thunderstorms hold chunks of ice in the ...

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