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It’s different because the National Weather Service uses “grapefruit-sized” specifically to refer to hail that is more than 4.5 inches in diameter but no more t
by abadpoli 2y ago
It’s different because the National Weather Service uses “grapefruit-sized” specifically to refer to hail that is more than 4.5 inches in diameter but no more than 5 inches in diameter. It isn’t “any hail that is about the size of a grapefruit”.
This hail was bigger than 5 inches, so NWS needed a new term for it per their estimation guidelines.
- microtherion 2y agoBetter than Banana sized, I guess.
- adolph 2y agoUsing “DVD” doesn’t seem to make sense because, as noted, the diameter of a DVD is less than 5 inches.