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by dylan604 1088 days ago
Yeah, baseball sized hail is not a normal thing in my area. Marble sized hail is the normal large size with pea sized hail more frequent. So when the weather alerts start telling you a storm has a history of tennis ball to baseball sized hail, it's one you look to avoid. The marble sized hail is enough to ding metal. Golf ball sized hail will damage trees and smash glass. I've never personally experienced baseball sized hail, but on the day that I ever do, I'll have to question what I did to piss off god to that point.
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> Yeah, baseball sized hail is not a normal thing in my area.

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The conditions to create a hail stone that large are just not easy to create. If you consider the weight of a piece of ice the size of a baseball, then consider the strength of air currents required to keep pushing that bit of mass around in the air so it doesn't fall to the ground sooner you might see why it is rare for that size of stone to be so normal. Even with global warming, those are some serious currents required.