The shape and density of these layers of ice within hailstones can reveal details about the growth process. But normally, researchers can only study a few cross-sections of a single hailstone by ...

Hail will finally get the attention it deserves this spring, with the world's largest field campaign ever devoted to studying the destructive phenomena.

A tiny ice crystal will be the nucleus of the hail ... it falls to the ground The largest officially recognized hailstone on record to have been "captured" in the U.S. was that which fell near ...

Supercooled water freezes at different rates, depending on the temperature of the hailstone surface, leaving layers of clear or cloudy ice as the hailstone moves around inside a thunderstorm.

Ranging in size from peas to grapefruits, the ice chunks can wreak havoc where ... India and northern Italy." The largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States fell in Vivian, South ...