{"id":39173,"date":"2024-04-30T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/a-ruinous-hailstorm-in-spain-may-have-been-supercharged-by-warming-seas\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:31:44","slug":"a-ruinous-hailstorm-in-spain-may-have-been-supercharged-by-warming-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/a-ruinous-hailstorm-in-spain-may-have-been-supercharged-by-warming-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"A ruinous hailstorm in Spain may have been supercharged by warming seas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A torrent of giant hailstones in northeast Spain may have been fueled by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 31, 2022, a brutal hailstorm struck the small Spanish city of La Bisbal d\u2019Empord\u00e0. The storm unleashed balls of ice up to 12 centimeters wide, causing widespread damage to property and crops, injuring dozens of people and killing a 20-month-old toddler. Computer simulations now suggest that in a preindustrial climate, the storm could not have generated hailstones this big<\/a>, researchers report in the March 28 Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n