hailstorm
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Now CEO of Elanco Animal Health, Simmons said his family’s upstate New York grape farm had been devastated by a hailstorm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Authorities in the Aude department in south-west France cancelled the third stage of the Vuelta a Espana cycling race in the area after a hailstorm in the French Pyrenees forced riders to seek shelter.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
A kooky hailstorm in late May, a heat wave in June, followed by ruthlessly ripping winds, delayed the opening by days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
On Saturday, a rare tornado and a hailstorm swept neighboring Guangzhou city, a production hub in southern China, killing five and injuring 33.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
The day of Uncle Edisto’s funeral, we’d had a morning hailstorm and a broken punch bowl, so I was glad to greet the sun.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Now, hailstorms, wildfires and wind damage are hammering places once thought to be shielded from the worst rate hikes, a Wall Street Journal analysis of premiums and natural disasters nationwide found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Spain has been hit by torrential rain and hailstorms, triggering flash flooding across multiple regions.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
Many areas of the Great Plains were still bracing for bruising hailstorms, as a weeklong string of severe weather continued through the holiday weekend.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2024
Floods and hailstorms in Italy, Greece and central eastern European countries inflicted a 3.7-percentage point hit to Generali's combined ratio in the nine months through September.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2023
In regard to keeping my groves clean—from 1901 to 1910, we had three broods of locusts and two hailstorms that opened the bark in almost every tree and branch.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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