hailstone
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"These things do sometimes happen, something may have struck the window, for example a bird, a large hailstone, it's not unheard of".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
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
The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
AL.com cites a release from state climatologist Dr. John Christy that says a hailstone that fell March 19 in Cullman County is the largest on record in the state.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
The sky hurled hailstone after hailstone onto my field.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
There were "hailstones as big as toes with torrential rain, thunderstorm and lightning", he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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
All sound like the stuff of fun games — except when they are used to describe the size of the hailstones that often accompany severe thunderstorms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
It happened so suddenly that at first the agent cringed and doubled over thinking the hailstones were bullets from somebody behind or off at a slant below his exposed rear.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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