This was a wondrous assortment of freshly fallen hail in one place, the only addition being the knobby, nearly 2-inch-diameter piece from merely a couple feet to the right of the view. Sizes ranged from less than pea sized to hailstones about half an inch larger than the measured specimen, based on a few others I noticed later. It’s fascinating to contemplate the multitude of processes, directions and path lengths swept through the column of supercooled water drops required to build such a diversity of hail, given how the stones are constructed not only at different sizes and shapes, but varying thicknesses of both clear and bubbly, opaque ice layers.
2 S Springfield CO (26 May 19) Looking down and E
37.3372, -102.6154Icy Variety
This was a wondrous assortment of freshly fallen hail in one place, the only addition being the knobby, nearly 2-inch-diameter piece from merely a couple feet to the right of the view. Sizes ranged from less than pea sized to hailstones about half an inch larger than the measured specimen, based on a few others I noticed later. It’s fascinating to contemplate the multitude of processes, directions and path lengths swept through the column of supercooled water drops required to build such a diversity of hail, given how the stones are constructed not only at different sizes and shapes, but varying thicknesses of both clear and bubbly, opaque ice layers.
2 S Springfield CO (26 May 19) Looking down and E
37.3372, -102.6154