We've *always* had freak hail storms my entire life in my area (I'm 60) and sometimes we've seen HUGE hailstones. It's only now when these weather gods worshipers are all moving to places (trying to escape the hellscapes they created) where we have *always* experienced these hail storms that now it's in the news. Weather has been happening my entire life. None of this is anything new!
We've *always* had freak hail storms my entire life in my area (I'm 60) and sometimes we've seen HUGE hailstones. It's only now when these weather gods worshipers are all moving to places (trying to escape the hellscapes they created) where we have *always* experienced these hail storms that now it's in the news. Weather has been happening my entire life. None of this is anything new!
When I was in high school in central Indiana Dave Letterman was working as the weatherman at the local ABC affiliate. One evening he reported on a typical midwestern summer line of thunderstorms as producing "hail the size of canned hams." (It's widely reported on websites that he was fired for this, but in my memory WTHR never fired him; he quit in 1975 to go to LA.)
Right? Everything weather related is new, or the worst ever, etc. whatever it takes to keep us all scared so we’ll ignore the massive abuses to our liberty.
Given the nature of hail damage (the actual phenomenon *melts*, thus the evidence disappears) it will only really generate data if there are insurance claims.
My husband's work car is a hail damaged write-off. It was in a car yard that was hit by a hailstorm and the roof is covered with dimples. You'd never notice if you didn't know to look, but the insurance company wrote it off and it was sold off cheap. Pretty good car, pretty good price.
Yeah — the point is that if all that’s in the target area is old pickup trucks and tin-roofed turn out sheds, no one’s going to file a claim. It’s when the coasties move in with their BMWs and Sprinter vans that someone’s going to care if it hailed. One exception — hail damage to small aircraft. A lot of insurance write-offs, when the damage is purely cosmetic.
Hail has always been around, but don’t dismiss the manmade weather modification currently taking place. 30 states allow for weather modification. It is experimental and has caused flooding and other unintended calamities. NOAA has a database where these activities are logged (excluding military programs). It’s time people start investigating this. WEF in Colorado manipulating the weather should be a red flag.
Agreed: We've always had freakishly large hail. I was caught out in a storm in 1979 on the Colorado State U campus, luckily able to be next to a building wall that protected me from hundreds of tennis ball to grapefruit sized hail falling all around.
I wonder if in the 1700's - 1800's the hailstorms were worse as the homes were built with shutters that actually SHUT to protect the windows or was this just because the glass was so fragile. I know that Florida has hurricane shutters. I've only seen one modern house (not in Florida) built with outside window shutters.
We've *always* had freak hail storms my entire life in my area (I'm 60) and sometimes we've seen HUGE hailstones. It's only now when these weather gods worshipers are all moving to places (trying to escape the hellscapes they created) where we have *always* experienced these hail storms that now it's in the news. Weather has been happening my entire life. None of this is anything new!
When I was in high school in central Indiana Dave Letterman was working as the weatherman at the local ABC affiliate. One evening he reported on a typical midwestern summer line of thunderstorms as producing "hail the size of canned hams." (It's widely reported on websites that he was fired for this, but in my memory WTHR never fired him; he quit in 1975 to go to LA.)
Cool story. Thanks!
Right? Everything weather related is new, or the worst ever, etc. whatever it takes to keep us all scared so we’ll ignore the massive abuses to our liberty.
Given the nature of hail damage (the actual phenomenon *melts*, thus the evidence disappears) it will only really generate data if there are insurance claims.
Not to self, take pictures for the insurance company, otherwise they may not believe you and deny the claim. They are despicable
My husband's work car is a hail damaged write-off. It was in a car yard that was hit by a hailstorm and the roof is covered with dimples. You'd never notice if you didn't know to look, but the insurance company wrote it off and it was sold off cheap. Pretty good car, pretty good price.
Yeah — the point is that if all that’s in the target area is old pickup trucks and tin-roofed turn out sheds, no one’s going to file a claim. It’s when the coasties move in with their BMWs and Sprinter vans that someone’s going to care if it hailed. One exception — hail damage to small aircraft. A lot of insurance write-offs, when the damage is purely cosmetic.
Hail has always been around, but don’t dismiss the manmade weather modification currently taking place. 30 states allow for weather modification. It is experimental and has caused flooding and other unintended calamities. NOAA has a database where these activities are logged (excluding military programs). It’s time people start investigating this. WEF in Colorado manipulating the weather should be a red flag.
https://library.oarcloud.noaa.gov/noaa_documents.lib/OAR/OWAQ/Weather_Modification_Project/FY24/Q3/2024COG-1.pdf
Agreed: We've always had freakishly large hail. I was caught out in a storm in 1979 on the Colorado State U campus, luckily able to be next to a building wall that protected me from hundreds of tennis ball to grapefruit sized hail falling all around.
I saw one in my Sis/Bil freezer the size of a softball-Minnesota. Wrecked both of their cars. Late 1990's
Thank you for saying.
I wonder if in the 1700's - 1800's the hailstorms were worse as the homes were built with shutters that actually SHUT to protect the windows or was this just because the glass was so fragile. I know that Florida has hurricane shutters. I've only seen one modern house (not in Florida) built with outside window shutters.
And as Jeff said, that "study" was just modeling based on simulations, all based on their own assumptions. What could be inaccurate, lol?