Fantastic presentation! Thank you for sharing this. Catastrophic hailstorms are also on the increase, and changing, and I wonder how that overlaps with the tornado story? Are they linked?
Hail trends have varied quite a bit across the contiguous US. A recent paper:
et al: "Owing to a dearth of long-term observations, as well as incomplete process understanding and limited convection-permitting modelling studies, current and future climate change effects on hailstorms remain highly uncertain." https://nature.com/articles/s43017-020-00133-9
Thanks Andy. It would be interesting to explore if the average hail size is increasing and what the eventual impacts would be of such a catastrophic trend. Here's a link to the story of an 8 inch hail stone found in South Dakota in 2010. https://www.weather.gov/abr/vivianhailstone.
An even larger hail stone was found in northern Bangladesh after the storm killed 92 people, and Wiki says a hailstorm helped lead to the French Revolution. Crazy stuff! And I wonder if anyone is examining how global warming will affect this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costly_or_deadly_hailstorms.
Fantastic presentation! Thank you for sharing this. Catastrophic hailstorms are also on the increase, and changing, and I wonder how that overlaps with the tornado story? Are they linked?
Hail trends have varied quite a bit across the contiguous US. A recent paper:
et al: "Owing to a dearth of long-term observations, as well as incomplete process understanding and limited convection-permitting modelling studies, current and future climate change effects on hailstorms remain highly uncertain." https://nature.com/articles/s43017-020-00133-9
Thanks Andy. It would be interesting to explore if the average hail size is increasing and what the eventual impacts would be of such a catastrophic trend. Here's a link to the story of an 8 inch hail stone found in South Dakota in 2010. https://www.weather.gov/abr/vivianhailstone.
An even larger hail stone was found in northern Bangladesh after the storm killed 92 people, and Wiki says a hailstorm helped lead to the French Revolution. Crazy stuff! And I wonder if anyone is examining how global warming will affect this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costly_or_deadly_hailstorms.