A new study suggests that climate change will make hail bigger and more expensive

In the past 18 months, the U.S. has recorded more than $100 billion in losses due to severe storms, and most of these losses are due to hail

According to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate and Atmospheric Science, hail will become less frequent, but larger and more damaging, due to human-caused climate change.

Hailstorms are by far the most costly risk associated with severe thunderstorms, with damage costs exceeding those of tornadoes and straight-line winds combined.

A single major hailstorm can affect tens of thousands of vehicles and produce billions of dollars worth of damage, underscoring the importance of researchers unraveling the secrets of hail.

“When we talk about convective storms and hail, it’s like dying on a thousand pieces of paper,” Victor Gensini, a severe storm researcher at Northern Illinois University and lead author of the study, said in an interview.
“Those aggregate losses are starting to add up.”

His group simulated future hailstorms using weather models run on supercomputers and analyzed how those storms would change as greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels increased in the atmosphere.
The researchers found that while hailstorms would be less frequent due to global warming and increased melting, larger hailstorms would be more frequent.

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