Saturday, March 24, 2012

Largest Hailstone on Record for the State of Hawaii

Credit: NOAA


“The final measurement of the hailstone was 4 1/4 inches long, 2 1/4 inches tall, and 2 inches wide,” said Michael Cantin, warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA’s National Weather Service in Honolulu, which, along with NOAA's State Climate Extremes Committee, confirmed the new state record. “According to hail report records for Hawaii kept back to 1950 the previous state record hailstone was 1 inch in diameter.”
http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/hi_hail.html

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