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it's thursday september 8th, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Hail is getting bigger and becoming more common to more areas, but we still know relatively

little about it.

Plus, a possibly complete dinosaur skeleton with intact, fossilized skin has been discovered in Alberta,

and a very brief historical perspective on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II,

as well as some of the names King Charles III could have chosen to go by instead.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Growing up in Texas, hail was a normal facet of our frequent thunderstorms. I paid more attention to the size estimates of hail than to the forecasted inches it was supposed to rain.

I remember several times when storms hit in the mid-afternoon, the school would hold us back,

not letting us leave to walk home until the golf ball-sized hail warnings passed.

Moving to New York City over a decade ago, it was strange to me at first to experience rain

without frozen pellets. It's still atypical for hail to occur here, but anecdotally,

it does seem to be increasing. I've witnessed hail at least three times here during the pandemic,

despite rarely ever seeing it before that. And turns out I'm not just

making it up. Risk assessment firm Verisk put out a report recently stating that the region in the

U.S. susceptible to hailstorms has grown wider in the past several years, stretching from

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