Tag: hailstorm
A ruinous hailstorm in Spain may have been supercharged by warming seas
A torrent of giant hailstones in northeast Spain may have been fueled by climate change.
On August 31, 2022, a brutal hailstorm struck the small Spanish city of La Bisbal d’Empordà. The storm unleashed balls of ice up to 12 centimeters wide, causing widespread damage to property and crops, injuring dozens of people and killing a 20-month-old toddler. Computer simulations now suggest that in a preindustrial climate, the storm could not have generated hailstones this big, researchers report in the
Freak August hailstorm causes chaos as snowplows take to streets in summer
Germany experienced a freak hailstorm over the weekend, and up to a foot of hailstones piled up in the streets.
Officials in the city of Reutlingen deployed snowplows and about 250 firefighters Friday to help clear the roads.
The Echaz River, which runs through the city, rose by five feet in five minutes and briefly burst its banks due to the ice, the Independent reported.
The ice blocked storm drains, causing water to flood underground garages and basements. The fire