A hailstone weighing almost 2 pounds that fell on central South Dakota last Friday is the largest ever recovered in the USA, the National Weather Service announced.
The cantaloupe-size chunk of ice that landed in Vivian, S.D., measures 8 inches in diameter, 18.625 inches in circumference and weighs 1 pound, 15 ounces.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is shrouded in an eerie blanket of dust on September 23, 2009. Sydney’s cars and buildings turned orange as strong winds blew desert dust across the city, snarling commuter and air transport and prompting a warning for children and the elderly to stay indoors.
Australia’s biggest city was shrouded in an eerie blanket of red dust on Wednesday as bushfires, earthquakes, wild winds and massive hail stones caused havoc in the country. Read More / Watch Video »
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Huge hailstones, lightning, strong winds and heavy rain hit the Eyre Peninsula, west of Adelaide, on Monday morning before moving across the state.
State Emergency Services (SES) west coast regional duty officer Tony Stockham said they have been have been inundated with calls, while efforts made by SES crews to reach call-out locations had been hindered.
“In some areas the roads have been all but impassable because of the size of the trees that have fallen,” he said. Read More / Watch Video »
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Feb. 4, 2009 — A bizarre form of earthquake, which happens over the course of two to three weeks but makes barely a rumble, are lending important clues to the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific northwest, one of the most dangerous fault zones on Earth.
For the last decade, slow-slip earthquakes have been measured in fault zones all over the world, baffling scientists. Though the ‘quakes’ release as much energy as a normal earthquake between magnitude 6.0 and 6.5, they produce almost no shaking.
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The streets of Belgrade looked more like rivers after a massive hailstorm hit the Serbian capital recently.
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Air pollution hugely increases the size of hail, and thus the amount of damage it can cause to crops and property, according to a study presented at the European Conference on Severe Storms.
The interaction of man-made particles with airborne ice could also interfere with the way heat is distributed in the earth·s atmosphere, with possible consequences for climate change, one of the study·s authors told AFP.
Like tornados, hail is generated by small-scale storms that are difficult to track, and thus almost impossible to forecast. While they rarely last more than a few minutes, they can be devastating. Read More / Watch Video »
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