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frozen rage that grows in layers like a violent onion before falling on your car
means To hail is to greet or call out to someone, or to come from a particular place — and as a noun, the icy pellets that fall from storm clouds.
from Two separate words wearing the same coat. The weather 'hail' descends from Old English 'hægl,' the frozen-pellet sense, with cousins across the Germanic languages (German 'Hagel'). The greeting 'hail' comes from a different root: Old Norse 'heill,' meaning whole, healthy, or sound — to hail someone was to wish them health, the same family that gave us 'hale' and 'whole.' So when you 'hail' a cab, you're literally wishing it well-being.
- size record
- largest U.S. stone weighed nearly two pounds
- layered growth
- stones gain rings cycling through storm updrafts
- speed
- big stones fall over 100 mph
- costly
- billions in damage annually in America alone
- hailstone shapes
- some grow spikes from clumping mid-air
hailstorm superbowl xliii — tampa bay, florida, january 31, 2009 - rare hail fell during super bowl xliii between steelers and cardinals
argentina hail capital — mendoza province experiences frequent severe hailstorms, requiring extensive hail-netting infrastructure on vineyards