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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

Much of the country has been badly hit by heavy rain and hailstorms, triggering rapid flooding in many areas which has already claimed at least 72 lives.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 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

“Ten years ago the narrative was we would have less hailstorms under a changing climate,” says Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2023

After the introduction of the bill by Lord John Russell, the obscurantists made a final effort to call down one of their old pelting hailstorms.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John