Eastern Colorado and Wyoming and western Nebraska are “hail alley”, which is why hail research projects are ongoing there. Uplift from the front range cools water vapor to form hail that then comes down on the plains areas. Anyone should know this would be a bad spot for a solar farm. If they need a clue, stop one of the hail research teams and sk them.
I should have left Wyoming off the list, it’s NE and CO that are #1 and #2 for hail losses: https://insurify.com/insights/states-most-vulnerable-to-hail-damage-2023/
😁. Driving from NM back to MS one time in the summer I noticed it was dramatically cooling down. As I got into Muleshoe TX, there was about eight inches of hail piled up for a couple miles. Glad I got there after it came down.