hailstone
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He posted photos on X showing one home with its roof torn off and another missing roof shingles, as well as an image of a baseball-sized hailstone.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 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
A person holds up a hailstone during a hailstorm in Girona, Spain August 30, 2022.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2022
The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
The sky hurled hailstone after hailstone onto my field.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
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
The Met Office described the Channel Islands as having endured "supercell thunderstorms", where locals faced frequent lightning, large hailstones and a possible hurricane.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
“It lost an awful lot of juice when all those hailstones hit it in the night. Cut away two more seagulls, Centipede!”
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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