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The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, is a network of volunteer weather observers in the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas that take daily readings of precipitation and report them to a central data store over the Internet. The program is an example of citizen science.
Hail is a chunk of ice that can fall during thunderstorms. Unlike snow, sleet, freezing rain, and graupel, which occur in colder weather, hail is most common in warm conditions, during spring and ...
More than an inch of rain fell in Des Moines as central Iowa saw another batch of thunderstorms, hail and reports of funnel clouds Tuesday evening into the early hours of Wednesday.. Some areas in ...
Chances of rain and thunderstorms will increase late Wednesday afternoon, after 2 p.m., into the evening and overnight, mainly after 1 a.m. Widespread rainfall of 1-2 inches is possible, but the ...
Over 20,000 People were evacuated from West Edmonton Mall when the weight from the hail and rain caused the glass roofs to shatter. [16] 20–21 April 2006 San Marcos, Texas, US Hail of sizes up to 10 cm (3.9 in) [17] [18] results in 10,000 auto claims, 7,000 homeowner and commercial property claims ranging between $100–160 million insured ...
Hail can also undergo "dry growth", in which the latent heat release through freezing is not enough to keep the outer layer in a liquid state. Hail forming in this manner appears opaque due to small air bubbles that become trapped in the stone during rapid freezing. These bubbles coalesce and escape during the "wet growth" mode, and the ...
As the sweltering heat continues to bake the Midwest and Northeast this week, AccuWeather forecasters say a separate daily hazard will arise on the northern edge of the heat: severe thunderstorms.
A pair of storms that swing out from the southern Rockies will lead to travel problems on and around Christmas due to localized flooding, severe thunderstorms and patchy fog over the south-central ...