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Hailstones in clover, one cut to show the growth ring pattern.
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Hailstones up to 30mm in diameter fell in some areas, exacerbating flooding by blocking drains.
Weatherwatch: Rainstorms hit Greece and Turkey, and Hurricane Jova devastates Mexico 2011
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ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Hailstones that big belong in a disaster movie, in part because they are so big they're downright hard to believe.
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Hailstones that fell with a thunderstorm on May 14.
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Hailstones of this size are usually aggregates of smaller, spherical hailstones that have frozen together to create a large mass of ice.
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Hailstones dented four cars at his family's Vienna home, cracking the windshield of one, he said.
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Hailstones add most of their mass during updrafts.
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Hailstones can grow very large in size when they are carried upward by more than one updraft.
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Hailstones piled up on the ground like styrofoam peanuts, forming ankle-deep white drifts.
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Hailstones often have concentric shells of ice alternating between those with a white cloudy appearance and those that are clear.
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