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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,359 posts) Fri May 1, 2020, 01:20 PM May 2020

Scientists are actually proposing a new category to classify hail stones this massive: "gargantuan"

Scientists are actually proposing a new category to classify hail stones this massive: "gargantuan":

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I believe David Letterman proposed the current scientific nomenclature while working as a weatherman: “hail the size of canned hams”

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Stories like these are why I stopped doubting Benvenuto Cellini's account of a 16th c. hailstorm in France: http://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4028/pg4028-images.html

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Scientists are actually proposing a new category to classify hail stones this massive: "gargantuan" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP

My understanding of hailstone formation is that they crystalize in the clouds and OAITW r.2.0 May 2020 #1

Large ones. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #2

OAITW r.2.0

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1. My understanding of hailstone formation is that they crystalize in the clouds and

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Fri May 1, 2020, 01:54 PM

May 2020

updrafts continue to coat them until they are heavy enough to freefall to the ground. So what kind of updrafts are happening to move a 10 lb iceball back up into the atmosphere?

mahatmakanejeeves

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2. Large ones. NT

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #1)

Fri May 1, 2020, 01:56 PM

May 2020

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