Hail the size of grapefruit shattered car windows in Johnson City, Texas. In June, 2024, a storm chaser found a hailstone almost as big as a pineapple. Even larger hailstones have been documented in ...

Welcome Back to The Climate Classroom! Last time, we explored how hail forms when cold water droplets collide inside thunderstorms. Today, we’ll discover how thunderstorms hold chunks of ice in the ...

LEVELLAND, Texas — Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their own bodies dented in the name of science. They hope ...

Forget twisters. These storm chasers are after a sneakier hazard: hail. A team of about 70 researchers, armed with high-tech sensors and specially outfitted vehicles, set out across the nation this ...

SHAMROCK, Texas (AP) — As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation’s costliest but ...

A multi-million-dollar research project led by Northern Illinois University is investigating hailstorms by collecting over 10,000 hailstones across 24 storms in 11 states. Hail causes more damage than ...

This is an all out exploration of hail storms from the ground up. Our data from aloft will be combined with the data on the ground, which is also combined with radar trucks away from the storm. In the ...