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Enormous hailstones inspire a new scientific size category: ‘gargantuan’

An ordinary storm generated extraordinary hail that pounded an Argentine city.
Two hands hold a giant hailstone.

‘Victoria’s hailstone’, which fell on central Argentina in 2018, weighed nearly half a kilogram and is named for the teenager who scooped it out of her front garden. Credit: Victoria Druetta

A thunderstorm that at first seemed unexceptional to scientists turned out to produce some of the biggest hailstones on record, which pummeled central Argentina in 2018.

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Nature 580, 435 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01088-z

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