Last month, hailstones as big as baseballs pounded the Denver area, knocking down power lines, damaging homes, and smashing through windshields “like tissue paper,” The Washington Post reported. The hailstorm hit during rush hour, when lots of cars where on the road, and ended up being Colorado’s costliest catastrophe, totaling $1.4 billion in damages. But if climate change goes unchecked, we might see more of these extreme hailstorms in the future, according to new research.
Just about every car in this #Golden office parking lot has #Hail damage. #CoWx http://pic.twitter.com/d5YZPbD1Nj
— Jaclyn Allen (@jaclynreporting) May 8, 2017
A study published today in Nature Climate Change shows that in the second half of this century, North...
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