hailstone
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"These things do sometimes happen, something may have struck the window, for example a bird, a large hailstone, it's not unheard of".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
The record is now an official entry in the World Weather & Climate Extremes Archive, a sort of Guinness World Records for weather that also includes the heaviest hailstone and longest lightening flash.
From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2021
The current world record for a hailstone is 8 inches across, or about the size of a volleyball.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
That office’s meteorologist-in-charge, Chris Darden, said it was the first U.S. hailstone measured for volume.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
Grinning, he gathered in one sweep all the mucus in his flaring nostrils and let fly a blob as thick as a hailstone.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Large hailstones, some the size of £1 coins, fell in a 20-minute burst over the city, with some roads also flooded in the city centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
St Helier-based Carl Walker, the chairman of Jersey's Consumer Council, said his family were woken by hailstones at midnight, which he said had stuck together to create "golf ball-sized lumps of ice".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
The hailstones were no longer smashing against the peach.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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