News Nation/World Cantaloupe-size hail keeps bombarding Texas May 30, 2025 Updated Fri., May 30, 2025 at 9:57 p.m. Ominous-looking storm clouds roll through on Oct. 8, 2018, over downtown Dallas ...

“We want the biggest hail possible.” A 2024 study by Gensini found that as the world warms from human-caused climate change, small hailstones will become less likely while the larger ones ...

A hailstone grows larger when other drops freeze onto its surface while it is inside an updraft, creating growth layers and the knobby appearance that big stones get as they spin and tumble in the ...

Hail the size of grapefruit shattered car windows in Johnson City, Texas. In June, 2024, a storm chaser found a hailstone almost as big as a pineapple.

The largest hailstone reported in Illinois was about 4.75 inches, the size of a softball, and fell on June 10, 2015, near the village of Minooka, 50 miles southwest of Chicago.

A few live for hailstorms. That is certainly true of the more than 50 weather scientists involved in the largest-ever field survey focused on extreme hail, now under way across the US Great Plains.