When Western New York gets hail from a thunderstorm, typically it is in the late spring or early summer. When that happens it is usually pea-size or penny-size hail. That hail size is typically not a ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This episode is about hail size. We will use a hair dryer and different sizes of Styrofoam balls to model a thunderstorm’s updraft. Now we know that once the hail gets too big for ...

Just like snowflakes, no two hailstones are the exact same. Each hailstone has a unique journey through a storm cloud, which can affect the shape, size and even color of a particular hailstone. Hail ...

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 ...

This weekend, severe thunderstorms are expected to roll through parts of Southeast Texas along and east of Interstate 45, possibly delivering damaging winds and hail that’s at least an inch in ...

Chunks of hail as big as softballs pelted Kansas and Missouri during a storm Wednesday night, The Associated Press reports. Some are calling it “gorilla hail,” a term coined by Reed Timmer, a storm ...

Mammoth hail keeps pelting parts of Central Texas. Cantaloupe-size hail — approximately six inches in diameter — was recovered following rotating supercell thunderstorms earlier this week. One of 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 ...