Hailstones in a sentence

Hailstones can be very large or very small, depending on how strong the updraft is: weaker hailstorms produce smaller hailstones than stronger hailstorms (such as supercells ).

Clear hailstones, like what Rutherford residents saw on Tuesday, form during wet growth.

Similarly massive hailstones were seen in Sydney's northwest and in Bowral, in southern NSW.

Some regions picked up about 110 mm of rain, roughly a month's total, in two hours on Saturday morning, while hailstones as big as 6 cm were also spotted.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for damaging winds and large hailstones for parts of the Central West.

Giant hailstones rained down on Canberra on January 20 in what the Bureau described as “one of the most severe” storms recorded for the ACT.

Here there are no hurricanes, no golf ball-sized hailstones and barely a hosepipe ban in living memory.

The storm then hit Canberra on Monday, as hailstones the size of golf balls rained down on Parliament House.

According to the MSD, insecure home roofs, schools and shopping centres could be blown off by strong winds while asbestos roofing could be perforated by hailstones in some instances, potentially endangering occupants.

Just after 8pm, the bureau warned damaging winds and large hailstones were likely as thunderstorms developed near Murgon and Tiaro over the following hours.

There were hailstones on Sunday and it was exactly the same 70 years ago when Flora and Stevie Allan tied the knot in Carradale.

This was the first time Tongla – Shingkhar chiwog and Chema -Takchema chiwogs were hit by heavy hailstones.

Weather's turned in London: half-time hailstones here!

Elly the Corgi iz safe in the basement office from all the hailstones and thunder.

Hailstones broke not only the windshields of cars, but also penetrated into their chassis, as well as the roofs and windows of buildings.

The sonic devices, introduced to the rural municipality in June, send shock waves into the atmosphere to break up hailstones—which can be a nightmare for newly built vehicles parked in an outdoor lot.

Former theory suggested that hailstones were subjected to multiple descents and ascents, falling into a zone of humidity and refreezing as they were uplifted.

Large hailstone with concentric rings The size of hailstones is best determined by measuring their diameter with a ruler.

The hailstones, described as between the size of bumble bees and ping pong balls, were accompanied by rain and high winds.

The storm's updraft blows the hailstones to the upper part of the cloud.