The biggest hail we saw was about three inches across.
May 20, 2021, Alethea Kontis and I targeted northeastern Colorado, hoping for supercells. Bill Hark joined us for much of the chase. Storms took a long time to get going, and when they did, the lack of roads made it difficult to be on the “right” side of them … but we had a beautiful view of hail and rainbows (or hailbows) from the west.
We also picked up some very large hail on the road, up to three inches in diameter — hail I was very grateful not to drive through.
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