Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their ...

Every hailstone starts with a tiny particle called an ice nucleus. This could be a speck of dust, a bit of pollen, or even a small ice crystal drifting in the cloud.

Temperatures are expected to reach the 90s all week. So, how does ice fall from the sky on a hot Florida day? 樂 ...

Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their ...

After weeks of collecting these ice balls, Central Michigan student Sam Baron sampled the fruit of his labors. “It tastes like an ice cube,” Baron said. “It’s like the good ice that they ...

Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their own bodies dented in the name of science. They hope these hailstones ...

After weeks of collecting these ice balls, Central Michigan student Sam Baron sampled the fruit of his labors. “It tastes like an ice cube,” Baron said. “It’s like the good ice that they ...

It's all about trying to get good statistics on how strong the typical hailstone is. On this night, Gaimmanco and colleagues are finding the day's hail is unusually soft. It's surprising, but ...

Different teams do this over and over, with the debris littering vans. It’s all about trying to get good statistics on how strong the typical hailstone is.

The whole idea is to be "learning information about what the hailstone was doing when it was in the storm,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, one of the ...

The whole idea is to be “learning information about what the hailstone was doing when it was in the storm,” said Northern Illinois University ... After weeks of collecting these ice ...

How to collect a pristine hailstone. Mostly researchers grab hail to test after it falls, wearing gloves so as not to warm or taint the ice balls too much.