Here’s a list of some of the world's most interesting weather facts and how some compare to what we've experienced here in Virginia. ... Largest hailstone in the U.S. was the size of a volleyball.

Hail is more costly and destructive than tornadoes, and it's set to finally get more scientific attention this spring, with the world's largest field campaign ever devoted to studying the phenomena.

They say in 2024, Texas had 878 hail events.Once again, no one else even came close to that. Actually, one small community to the east of Texas did; they experience multiple hail events there on a ...

The biggest hailstones "are really more of an academic interest," Brimelow said, because they "fall in such low concentrations that they're not really as hazardous as golf-ball-size hail." ...

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The largest hailstone on record was in Vivian, South Dakota on June 23, 2010. ... She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.

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. Some people in Canada had found a ...

The largest hail tends to form in “supercell” thunderstorms and seems to be becoming more common as climate change continues By Brian Tang & The Conversation US ljphoto7/Getty Images ...

Hail is more costly and destructive than tornadoes, and it's set to finally get more scientific attention this spring, with the world's largest field campaign ever devoted to studying the phenomena.

Now headed to a federal lab in Boulder, Colorado, scientists will study the chunk to learn more about how hail forms. The world record, a 2.25-pounder, fell on Bangladesh in 1986. Read it at USA Today ...

"The hail only fell for 10 minutes, but it was 10 minutes of terror," councillor Carme Vall told local radio, according to AFP news agency. Catalonia's president Pere Aragones described the ...