Hail may get bigger due climate change, raising insurance costs

Research suggests climate change will make hailstones larger. Already, hail has caused higher damage costs in the U.S. this year than hurricanes and floods put together.

The sudden, percussive crackle came as Barb Berlin was standing in the garage of her farmhouse near Inman, Nebraska.

“I thought it was a gun,” she said.

Then came a streak of white. She realized the sound wasn’t gunfire but hail.

A fist-sized hailstone had pounded the tin roof on Berlin’s garage. Soon, others were leaving softball-shaped craters in the hood of her Ford Mustang, which was parked outside.

“It was so loud and it was scary. I did a lot of praying,” Berlin said, adding that she worried for her livestock. “I’ve never been in hail like that before.” 

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hail-bigger-climate-change-higher-insurance-costs-rcna168526

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