hailstone
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He posted photos on X, formerly Twitter, showing one home with its roof torn off and another with roof shingles and himself holding a baseball-sized hailstone.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
A 20-month-old child has died in Spain after being struck on the head by a hailstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2022
A person holds up a hailstone during a hailstorm in Girona, Spain August 30, 2022.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2022
The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
A large hailstone can hurt you as much as a rock or a lump of lead if it is thrown hard enough—and my goodness, how those Cloud-Men could throw!
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
A camping and caravan park at Dornoch in the Highlands faced flash flooding and large hailstones, while flights at Edinburgh Airport have been disrupted.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
That's the reason we publish more content explaining the physics of the aurora borealis, or why climate change is leading to bigger hailstones.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
On Monday night, hailstones piled up in doorways, making it impossible to open them and creating dams that pushed rainwater into buildings, he said.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
Preliminary data for 2023 show 6,962 reports, including a significant increase in reports of very large hailstones of two inches or more.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
“Jest fore Li’l Beulah got thar, a storm come up and hailstones big as this commenced a-fallin’.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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