Your Neighbor's Car Insurance Costs 40% More Because of a Hailstorm That Missed Your Block
Insurance companies price comprehensive coverage by ZIP code, which means two drivers in the same city can pay vastly...
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The Glass Ceiling: Why Your Panoramic Sunroof Is a Hailstorm's Favorite Target
A single golf ball-sized hailstone hitting tempered glass creates a repair bill ten times higher than the same impact...
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Nebraska's Hail Season Peaks in June—And Most Drivers Aren't Ready
While Texas and Oklahoma see their worst hail in April and May, Nebraska's damage peak arrives a full month later, ca...
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Kansas Hail Season Peaks When the Dryline Retreats: Why May and June Bring the Highest Risk
The same flat terrain that makes Kansas wheat country also allows supercell thunderstorms to maintain rotation for 10...
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Colorado's Hail Season Runs Just Six Weeks — And You're Probably Protecting Your Car During the Wrong Months
The Front Range hail window peaks from mid-May through June, a far narrower timeframe than the April-through-August p...
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The Hail Belt Is Moving East: What Three Decades of Storm Data Reveals About America's Changing Severe Weather Map
Thirty years of hail reports show the zone of maximum risk has shifted hundreds of miles eastward, placing millions o...
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The Hail Belt Isn't What You Think: Three Decades of Storm Reports Reveal America's True Impact Zones
County-level data from 1991 to 2020 shows the nation's worst hail corridor runs narrower and more concentrated than s...
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Cloud Seeding and Hail Suppression: Does It Actually Work, and Why Isn't Everyone Doing It?
Silver iodide has been injected into thunderstorms for decades to shrink hailstones, but the science remains contenti...
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The Geometry of Destruction: How Wind Shear Builds Hailstorms That Drop Baseballs from the Sky
Wind shear — the change in wind speed and direction with height — tilts thunderstorm updrafts away from their own pre...
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The Hail Belt Nobody Warned You About: Why Georgia's Spring Supercells Catch Drivers Off Guard
The Southeast produces some of the most intense hail events in the country during spring, but most drivers have no id...
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The Hail Belt Is Moving East—And Chicago and Indianapolis Weren't Ready
Severe hail reports in Illinois and Indiana have climbed steadily over the past decade, forcing metros that once saw ...
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The Rotating Engine: Why Supercell Thunderstorms Are Different Animals
Supercells persist for hours and recycle hailstones through a rotating updraft that ordinary thunderstorms lack entir...
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