Definition of hailstone
:a pellet of hail
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The institute is also doing its own hail research focused on what causes different types and sizes of hail, as well as hailstone softness and materials that can better withstand hail damage.
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Hailstones don’t form or grow very big without massive amounts of air billowing up from below.
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Between 1735 and 1738, Handel’s London was assailed by walnut-sized hailstones, the most violent winds in thirty years, and the Thames’s highest tide in fifty.
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And that’s just a hailstone’s throw away (.3 inches) from the current record for the water year, which runs from October through September.
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So the takeaway is that supercells will generally create bigger hailstones, but any other morphological changes are determined by highly variable temperatures, wind speeds, cloud densities, and other meteorological factors.
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First Known Use of hailstone
before 12th century
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