Did You Know? Hail isn't always round or small enough to hold in the palm of your hand.Some of these hard chunks of ice are elongated or jagged. They are mostly the size of gumballs, golf balls, or even baseballs. But the largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States landed in Coffeyville, Kansas, in 1970. That's my hometown!! It measured 17.3 inches around, this monster ice crystal weighed 1.67 pounds. The National Center for Atmospheric Research held on to it and made models. Imagine what it would have felt like to be hit on the head with that hailstone!

Please checkout the attached file on my Edomodo page to use for note-taking in class! Tomorrow we will contine with Unit 2: Physical Geography and Climates. Don't forget to find an article to use for your Current Event Analysis that's due on Friday!