Hail is one of the more underrated hazards in a severe thunderstorm, and the stones falling from the most intense storms have been trending toward the large end of the scale. Once dismissed as an ...

During severe thunderstorms, rising air shoots icy pellets the size of Dippin' Dots ice cream into the bitter cold of upper atmospheric layers. There, supercooled water freezes onto the small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A super El Niño could spell severe storms this fall and winter, including hail storms and flooding rains. (Jason Persoff ...

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While it may not feel like it now, Texas could be in store for a major cooldown in the coming months. But with “Super El Niño” in full swing, the National Weather Service warns that those chillier ...