OUCH! Poor child!
Sad.
Sad.
I’ve always wondered how many people on the Oregon trail etc were caught in such hail out on the open prairie. Coronado’s expedition out of New Mexico for the cities of gold was caught in a terrible hailstorm in Blanco Canyon, near today’s Lubbock Tx. Smashed a lot of their equipment, pottery, etc. Scattered their animals, etc.
How terrible.
How will the rats spin this? Another law will be needed. Apparently every single mishap now mandates Federal intrusion.
A preview of things to come?
That's what they think. Wasn't COVID supposed to be similar?
Seriously, prayers to the young girl family. It is a sad event.
Tragic. These types of storms can pop up out of nowhere.
In Fort Worth, we had an apocalyptic hail storm in early May 1996 during an annual outdoor park festival, Mayfest. The injuries were massive and damage to vehicles ran into the 100’s of millions.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain...................
Is “humongous” a real word?
OUCH! Poor child!
Hailstones are generally products of supercell thunderstorms as their formation requires powerful updrafts that can support their weight with the larger stones needing the stronger updrafts. A six inch (15cm) diameter [close to maximum record] will weigh close on a pound (0.5kg).
Just one reason that all pilots who want to match safe landings to takeoffs, are taught to give t-storms wide berth!
This is sad, but in Boy Scouts leadership warned us to watch out for this.
They said out west it is not unusual for park rangers to find hikers who have been killed by falling hail.
Guess it could happen anywhere.
Pictures at the site of holes punched thru an industrial building’s metal roof shows the impact force. It looks like small bore cannon fire.
I watched several major hailstorm videos where they showed the points on hail as it’s not always round. My gosh these can hurt you. As was explained the speed in which they fall or in s hail storm can truly harm you.
Four paragraphs to find out it was in Spain. That’s journalism?
Sounds like the Midwest every year
A falling acorn hit me on the head over the weekend. It was quite painful.
I was lucky once as a kid. Sometimes hail comes with massive rain, thunder and lighting, mud slides and stopped up drains that need to be cleard in the midst of it all if you don’t want your house ruined. I was so mad at my Dad for making me stand with him out in all that to clear drains. Fifty years later it still bugs me to recollect it.