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https://www.iflscience.com/environment/g...ld-record/
EXCERPT: This is what’s known as “gargantuan hail,” a potential record-smashing form of hailstone created by a violent thunderstorm that rocked Argentina in 2018. Researchers from Penn State have recently been studying the hailstones that pelted down on the Argentinian city of Villa Carlos Paz on February 8 2018. Reported in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, one particularly chunky hailstone is thought to have measured between 18.7 and 23.6 centimeters (7.4 to 9.3 inches) across.
[...] “The storm was a 'supercell, a class of strong, long-lived storms characterized by a persistent, rotating, updraft,” Matthew Kumjian, lead study author and associate professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmosphere Science at Penn State, told IFLScience.
[...] The largest of the documented hailstones from the Argentinian supercell storm appears to beat the current official record holder, a 20.3-centimeter (8-inch) wide hailstone that fell near Vivian, South Dakota on June 23 2010. Unfortunately, however, the researchers won’t be able to get the hailstone into the Guinness Book of Records as the physical remains have long melted away.
“There is no physical specimen to officially measure, so the estimate remains only an estimate. I don't think it would be desirable to change the standards used to keep the records. Alas! But it is for the best to keep the conventions consistent for our records,” concluded Kumjian. (MORE - details)
RELATED: List of costly or deadly hailstorms ... World's Largest Hailstones
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/a2HgD_guGGo
EXCERPT: This is what’s known as “gargantuan hail,” a potential record-smashing form of hailstone created by a violent thunderstorm that rocked Argentina in 2018. Researchers from Penn State have recently been studying the hailstones that pelted down on the Argentinian city of Villa Carlos Paz on February 8 2018. Reported in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, one particularly chunky hailstone is thought to have measured between 18.7 and 23.6 centimeters (7.4 to 9.3 inches) across.
[...] “The storm was a 'supercell, a class of strong, long-lived storms characterized by a persistent, rotating, updraft,” Matthew Kumjian, lead study author and associate professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmosphere Science at Penn State, told IFLScience.
[...] The largest of the documented hailstones from the Argentinian supercell storm appears to beat the current official record holder, a 20.3-centimeter (8-inch) wide hailstone that fell near Vivian, South Dakota on June 23 2010. Unfortunately, however, the researchers won’t be able to get the hailstone into the Guinness Book of Records as the physical remains have long melted away.
“There is no physical specimen to officially measure, so the estimate remains only an estimate. I don't think it would be desirable to change the standards used to keep the records. Alas! But it is for the best to keep the conventions consistent for our records,” concluded Kumjian. (MORE - details)
RELATED: List of costly or deadly hailstorms ... World's Largest Hailstones