Giant hailstones - how big can they get ?

I've never seen them bigger then golf ball sized aroung here.

They get pretty big around here. I've had them smash through our porch roof. Nibs

Just had our first hailstorm i can remember in years, i took some video of it but i couldn't help but drop a couple F bomb's in it so i won't post it

We usually don't get very big hail, but sometimes a lot of it shows up and it covers the ground like snow. I've only seen that happen a couple times in 40 years though.

what i wanna know is are they bigger whilst in the clouds and get smaller and smaller as they fall, OR do they collect rain and grow in size as they plummet to the ground?

I'm a little disapointed they didn't say how big hail stones can get. It takes an updraft on the front of the storm system of 60 miles an hour to make a hail stone the size of a golf ball. It takes an updraft of 100 miles an hour to make one the size of a baseball and a 110 mph updraft to make one the size of a softball. A couple years ago hail stones fell in China the size of basketballs and the following year basketball size hail fell in Colorado. That takes an updraft of 300 mph which means the jet stream was at work in the really big ones and they don't get any bigger than that because of ... [More]

the last hail storm we had here... they were as a big as an egg.. chicken egg

Pfft.. wimps. Ours are the size of Volkswagens. (mind you.. being fuel-efficient europeans.. our Volkswagens are only the size of basketballs) (Oh... and our basketballs are only the size of golf balls) meow purr

Wow, how cold is it up there? :w00t:

I'm a little disapointed they didn't say how big hail stones can get. It takes an updraft on the front of the storm system of 60 miles an hour to make a hail stone the size of a golf ball. It takes an updraft of 100 miles an hour to make one the size of a baseball and a 110 mph updraft to make one the size of a softball. A couple years ago hail stones fell in China the size of basketballs and the following year basketball size hail fell in Colorado. That takes an updraft of 300 mph which means the jet stream was at work in the really big ones and they don't get any bigger than that because of ... [More]