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Trivia about hailstones

  • Known to farmers as "white plague", they travel to Earth at up to 100 miles per hour, damaging crops
  • Produced by thunderstorm clouds, these lumps of ice bigger than 5mm are classified as hydrometeors
  • These, which may be described as softball-sized, begin in clouds as "embryos" to which frozen droplets adhere