Global warming will likely make bigger hailstones that could cause major damage to vehicles, solar panels and other infrastructure. But just how big can a hailstone get? “climate change may be increasing the potential for larger, more damaging hail in some regions, but the future loss signal will also depend heavily on where people build, what they build,.
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A new study says the size and damage from hailstones will increase in a warming world.
Rising global temperatures might be causing hailstorms to become more violent, with larger chunks of ice and more intense downpours.
Computer simulations of the future show that the amount of hail bigger than a large marble will. A warmer climate leads to increased water vapor, which serves as energy for thunderstorms and creates stronger updrafts on average—and more large hailstones aloft. To see how hail may change in a warmer world, researchers at peking university in beijing built a computer simulation that estimates how hailstones grow inside clouds based on atmospheric. Europe suffers huge economic losses due to hailstorms, but climate experts warn that rising temperatures is only making them bigger and more damaging.
Hailstones the size of golfballs are increasingly raining down on europe as the climate warms, causing expensive damage to cars and buildings.
