On June 6, an early-morning hailstorm in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex caused at least $825 million in damage, according to insurance broker Aon Benfield.

This year has left its mark on the nation’s two metropolitan areas that are most likely to be hit by high-end hailstorms. Giammanco co-chaired the meeting with NCAR senior scientist Andrew Heymsfield. “The atmosphere decided to tell us why we were here,” said Ian Giammanco, lead research meteorologist at the IBHS Research Center, at the opening of the August 14-16 workshop. hailstorms to date in the number of people reported hurt, according to John Allen (Central Michigan University). The quick-hitting storm dropped softball-sized stones on the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on August 6, killing two animals and injuring at least 14 people. Last week’s hailstorm in Colorado Springs is the most recent of the summer’s big ones. Sponsors included the National Science Foundation, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), and Building Envelope Consultants. This week’s meeting, hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, took a multidimensional look at the hail problem, with some 200 specialists on hand ranging from cloud physicists to climate and catastrophe modelers to insurance analysts and roofing experts. hail damage is falling more in line with the last decade of unprecedented losses, said experts at the North American Hail Workshop. What had looked like an overdue, relatively quiet year for U.S. Image credit: Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP. Above: The back window of a car is broken in the Broadmoor area of Colorado Springs, CO, after a hailstorm with stones the size of softballs hit the area on Monday, Aug.

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