Hail basically comprises small balls of frozen rain that have grown larger depending on a thunderstorm’s strength. Mostly a summertime form of precipitation, hail forms when raindrops get pulled ...
Hail begins when raindrops are carried up inside ... creating growth layers and the knobby appearance that big stones get as they spin and tumble in the clouds. The longer a stone remains in ...
The Insurance Bureau of Canada says a severe hail storm that battered Calgary last month is the second-costliest event in Canadian history. The bureau says the initial damage estimates come from ...
Hail stones as big as golf balls pummelled the tarmac at Calgary International Airport, damaging planes at WestJet and Flair Airlines and forcing them to ground 10 per cent of their fleets for ...