hailstone
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He posted photos on X, formerly Twitter, showing one home with its roof torn off and another with roof shingles and himself holding a baseball-sized hailstone.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
That is, the hailstone Mr. Scott collected in 2010, which measured eight inches across and weighed nearly two pounds, was no longer the largest ever recorded.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
A 20-month-old child has died in Spain after being struck on the head by a hailstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2022
The record is now an official entry in the World Weather & Climate Extremes Archive, a sort of Guinness World Records for weather that also includes the heaviest hailstone and longest lightening flash.
From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2021
A large hailstone can hurt you as much as a rock or a lump of lead if it is thrown hard enough—and my goodness, how those Cloud-Men could throw!
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
Large hailstones, some the size of £1 coins, fell in a 20-minute burst over the city, with some roads also flooded in the city centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
On Monday night, hailstones piled up in doorways, making it impossible to open them and creating dams that pushed rainwater into buildings, he said.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
Those hailstones can cause significant damage to homes and cars, a growing worry as warming temperatures fuel more destructive storms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Dozens of people on the island were evacuated to hotels overnight on Wednesday and locals were also hit by huge hailstones "bigger than golf balls".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
The dogs leaned down to eat the hailstones.
From "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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