A severe thunderstorm took residents of metro Phoenix by surprise on November 19, with intense footage showing hail “the size of a marble” pelting cars in Tempe. The footage was recorded by Jon Root, ...
Most storm chasers live for tornadoes. A few live for hailstorms. That is certainly true of the more than 50 weather scientists involved in the largest-ever field survey focused on extreme hail, now ...
INSIDE A TEXAS HAILSTORM (AP) — Wind roared against the SUV’s windows as its tires sloshed through water dumped onto the road by the downpour. A horizon-wide funnel cloud loomed out the window, ...
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 ...
Oklahoma is no stranger to hail, especially during spring severe weather season. But hail doesn’t just fall from the sky—it forms through a powerful process happening inside thunderstorms. Raindrops ...
During severe thunderstorms, rising air shoots icy pellets the size of Dippin’ Dots ice cream into the bitter cold of upper atmospheric layers. There, supercooled water freezes onto the small ...