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Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
- Teams from several universities are driving into hailstorms in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas to study hail formation and damage in 2025.
- This federally funded study remains active despite past funding cuts and aims to understand severe hail that causes significant property damage.
- Researchers have found hailstones larger than 5 inches in diameter, bigger than a softball but smaller than a soccer ball, during their treks.
- A 2024 study by Gensini showed that warming trends cause small hailstones to decline while larger, more damaging hail events could increase 15% to 75% this century.
- This research highlights hail as a costly and often overlooked threat that contributes to rising insurance costs and billion-dollar weather damages in the U.S.
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Scientists study hail formation in the eye of the storm
SHAMROCK, Texas — As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation's midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation's costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: hail.
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Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.
New high-speed camera captures hail in free fall in effort to improve public safety
New high-speed camera captures hail in free fall in effort to improve public safety The newly invented hail camera is loaded on the back of a pickup truck used by NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory scientists to drive into hail storms and take real-time, high-speed images of falling hailstones. (Image credit: NOAA NSSL) Download Image June 6, 2025 Research Weather severe storms forecasting technology & innovation 0 Off
Scientists chase hail to study severe storm damage risks
Project ICECHIP researchers chase hailstorms across the Plains to study large hail and climate effects, backed by NSF and insurance funding. The post Scientists chase hail to study severe storm damage risks first appeared on The Journal Record.
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