INT: Extreme Brazil Hail Damage Photos
MetSul blogged about an extreme day of thunderstorm activity in southern Brazil Saturday, where extrememly large hail and at least one tornado caused heavy damage. In the video blog below, I take a look at photos of the extreme hail damage to roofs and cars, the torando damage, and a radar and satellite image from the outbreak.
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A loose translation of MetSul's blog from Google Translator reads:
From the photos, the largest of the stones appeared to measure 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) and weighed 0.35 kilograms (0.77 pounds). Believe it or not, heavier, but not larger, hailstones have been found in the U.S. The largest hailstone fell in Aurora, Nebraska in 2003 and measured 17.8 centimeters (6.9 inches) wide, and the heaviest U.S. hailstone fell in Coffeeville, Kansas in 1970, weighing 0.75 kg (1.65 lbs).
A MetSul meteorologist explains that severe thunderstorms are not unusual in that area (loose translation from Google):
But he also points out that this weather was extreme even for that area, and affected large cities, which the storms usually don't. Although general weather forecasts were good, most residents could not be warned because of the lack of a national warning system like we have here in the United States.
Alexandre Aguiar, another person from the MetSul Weather Center, said that the number of homes damaged by these storms was higher than that from the nation's first Hurricane in 2004.
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