A new study published this week may cause a collective groan among those who have had a car dented or a windshield shattered by large hailstones. Expect to see larger hail and more intense hailstorms ...

The sky wasn't falling, but it might have felt like it in Colorado this week. Indeed, a storm there delivered a record-breaking hailstone that measured 4.83 inches in diameter -- roughly the size of a ...

KUSA — The speed that hail falls depends on the size, shape, and the location where it falls. Dr. Charles Knight, an atmospheric scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has tested ...

Hail, the irregularly shaped lumps of ice that tumble out of the sky during thunderstorms, is a puzzling precipitation type. It's made of ice and common during the spring and summer months, yet it ...

Next time you are in the grocery store, hold a honeydew melon in your hand and imagine it falling from the sky. That's what happened on this day four years ago when a hailstone about the same size ...

The use of a shifted gamma size distribution for hailstone samples is proposed. This is shown to provide a better fit than the usual exponential form, using time-resolved Alberta data. It is also ...

Hailstones of up to 8 and 9 centimetres hit parts of Queensland over the weekend. What caused them to be so large?