Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits bombarded an area near Lubbock.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      And the title is hilarious. What should we call balls this size?? We don’t have a name for it! We need a new name for it!!

      Imagine if hurricanes had different names for different speeds instead of Cat N. This is a horse speed hurricane. This is a cheetah speed hurricane. This one is 2.5 bullet train hurricane.

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        5 months ago

        You do realize hurricane categories are pretty arbitrary and certainly not metric.