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Destructive 2018 hail season a sign of things to come

  • Written by Samuel Childs, PhD Student in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Icy hailstones can do major damage, depending where they land.AP Photo/Nati Harnik

As ominous skies moved overhead just after noon on Aug. 6, the small splash of a hailstone was heard in the pool of the bear exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Moments later, a barrage of ice baseballs began falling from the sky, with one or...

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