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Old 07-02-2014, 10:36 AM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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I have been thru baseball size hail and seen the damage it can do but I can't imagine what it would be like getting bombed with hail the size of coconuts. I would do all I could to protect my coconut. Here is a list of the most costly and deadly hailstorms.


List of costly or deadly hailstorms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 07-02-2014, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Buxton UK
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Only 1cm. We get tiny hail in the UK.
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Old 07-02-2014, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Buenos Aires and La Plata, ARG
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March 21th, 2008.


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Old 07-02-2014, 11:07 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Golf ball size hail would be the largest ones. Enough to smash windows of cars.

These kind fell in 2012: http://static.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/r...51012mp_uu.jpg
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Old 07-02-2014, 04:07 PM
 
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Strange hail shaped like 1cm x 1cm x 1cm cubes in Kansas in 2005.
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Old 07-02-2014, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Golf ball sized, in Calgary, summer of '94 I think - I was just a kid.

It wasn't that unusual event, though. Large hail was incredibly common there in the summer months.
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Old 07-02-2014, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Bremerhaven, NW Germany
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My city is not really prone to hail, except for small hail (graupel).
Think the largest i have seen was during a summer thunderstorm in 2007, after the storm we had hail stones of about 2 cm in our back yard.
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Old 07-02-2014, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Penticton, BC
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Hail here is usually tiny, although once in 2008 during probably the worst thunderstorm i've ever seen here, there was some hail that was golf ball sized.
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Old 07-02-2014, 11:34 PM
 
Location: Paris
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I don't think I've ever seen large hail, or don't remember about it. There have been two large hail episodes in the Paris area last month:
Orage de grêle violent sur Essonne, Paris, Seine et Marne - énormes grêlons - 10-juin-2014.html
Orage de grêle violent sur Yvelines, Val d'Oise, Oise, Aisne - énormes grêlons - 08-juin-2014.html
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Old 07-03-2014, 01:38 AM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Back in the early 2000s....

It was three centimeters or so...
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