New Metric: Pineapple-sized hail...

[Joes Place]

Pineapple-Sized Hail Stone Falls in Texas—and It Might Set a New State Record

Veteran storm chaser Val Castor spotted the behemoth ice chunk in a ditch near Vigo Park in the Texas panhandle

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Psh. Let me know when we see watermelon sized hail.

 

[The Tradition]

How do they know this didn't fall out of an airplane lavatory?

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

How do they know this didn't fall out of an airplane lavatory?

Because it's not blue.

 

[Joes Place]

Because it's not blue.

Really?

Weird.... there's apparently no difference w/ the drinking water at Trad Trailer... 😉

 

[HawkMachine]

 

[QChawks]

Texas?

 

[The Tradition]

Speaking of hail...

https://www.accuweather.com/en/travel/austrian-airlines-plane-badly-damaged-by-hailstorm-during-flight/1658232

 

[OutbackBowl2017]

Somebody’s cooler got wrecked in the storm and ice fell out of it. No way hail is this big.

 

[Aardvark86]

honestly, i'm kind of stunned that the article didn't throw a global warming reference/threat in at the end. Obviously not written by the BBC.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Pineapple Hail would be a good indie band name.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

The future...

 

[Joes Place]

Psh. Let me know when we see watermelon sized hail.

Mother Nature:

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Humans may not prevail in this ice war. But the otters will survive by going deep under water. It is only time......make your allegiances.