hailstorm
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"Or a big hailstorm in September and then the insurance will reimburse us," he joked.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
The hailstorm hit the market town of Melksham, in Wiltshire, in the early hours of Thursday.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
A chorus of boos—boo-birds were on this team all afternoon—pummeled the field like a hailstorm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
He finished the regular season strong after giving up a hailstorm of home runs early, posting a 3.09 earned-run average with 75 strikeouts in 81⅔ innings over his last 15 starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Roz scooped him up, hunching over, protecting him from the falling stones, but the hailstorm might kill the poor bird if they couldn’t find cover soon.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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 across multiple areas.
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
A better grasp on the basics of hail formation would not only improve daily forecasting but would also feed into climate research on the future of hailstorms, he says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2023
Towards noon, to our great disappointment, the wind sprang up again from the westward and in the afternoon blew strong with snow and hailstorms.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by William Bligh
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