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
"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
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
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
Grinning, he gathered in one sweep all the mucus in his flaring nostrils and let fly a blob as thick as a hailstone.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
A camping and caravan park at Dornoch in the Highlands faced flash flooding and large hailstones, while flights at Edinburgh Airport have been disrupted.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
Preliminary data for 2023 show 6,962 reports, including a significant increase in reports of very large hailstones of two inches or more.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Residents in parts of New South Wales and South Australia were shocked to find hailstones the size of golf balls blanketing their lawns in summer.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
“They’ve been making hailstones and now they are showering them down onto the people in the world below!”
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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