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There is endless fascination with things that fall from the sky. The very term meteorology comes from the Greek word meteoron, referring to stuff high in the sky. Of that stuff, hailstones are among the more engaging things that drop on us.
I remember rushing out to collect them in one of the rare hailstorms we had during my boyhood in New Jersey, and my own children did the same in Illinois. It’s exciting to keep them in the freezer like a hoard of gemstones. If you crack them open, they have onion-like layers inside.…
