This past weekend in Naples, Italy, there was a baseball size hail that feel from the sky. The storm injured many people and animals. The storm was cause by a fierce change in the jet stream into Europe. The radar only showed a thunderstorm or cluster of storms. Instead baseball size hail fell with winds up to 75 mph. It is estimated that the storm caused at least $2 billion to over 70,000 homes and $1 billion in damage to crops.
This story seems out like it is straight out of a fairy tale. I can't imagine seeing a normal storm on the radar and receiving this type of hail. It just goes to show no matter how closely we study the weather it can still be unpredictable.
Hail baseball story
This is what makes weather so fascinating. Mother Nature is still sometimes completely unpredictable! Kind of like some of our students.
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