Hail Library: Decoding Storms with Ice Chunks
Update: 2025-12-23
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Associate professor Matthew Mason at the University of Queensland is curating an international hail database, collecting samples from recent storms around Brisbane. Despite melted and refrozen specimens, he finds valuable data in these ice chunks. The lab team weighs, measures, and scans the hail, testing replicas in wind tunnels to understand growth patterns and impact energy. Masons Hail Net project tracks hail and wind together, aiming to improve infrastructure and crop protection, with locals invited to contribute.
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