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Scientists collect data from inside severe hailstorms

Hail causes over $10 billion in damage annually

Project ICECHIP funded by NSF and insurance partners

Study links larger hail to climate change trends

SHAMROCK, Texas — As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: Hail.

Hail rarely kills, but it hammers roofs, cars and crops to the tune of $10 billion a year in damage in the U.S. So in one of the few federally funded science studies remaining after Trump administration cuts, teams from several universities are observing storms from the inside and seeing how the hail forms. Project ICECHIP h

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