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The hail in Texas was so big Tuesday that it required a new description (wapo.st)

submitted 5 months ago by silence7 to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits bombarded an area near Lubbock.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the title is hilarious. What should we call balls this size?? We don't have a name for it! We need a new name for it!!

Imagine if hurricanes had different names for different speeds instead of Cat N. This is a horse speed hurricane. This is a cheetah speed hurricane. This one is 2.5 bullet train hurricane.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You do realize hurricane categories are pretty arbitrary and certainly not metric.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

But they are one scale