Tornado researchers expand scope to study hail

A large hailstone, about 6 cm in diameter (Photo credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory Collection). The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) is changing the way researchers investigate and predict tornadoes and mitigate their damage in Canada. As its impact continues to grow, why stop with tornadoes? The research team behind NTP (founded in 2017 as a partnership between Western University and ImpactWX) has now launched the Northern Hail Project (NHP) and they expect to be documenting the frozen phenomenon starting this summer. "With NTP, we've really set the standard for this kind of research. The knowledge and expertise that we've gained over the past few years sets us up perfectly to succeed in this new endeavour: investigating hail," said Gregory Kopp, ImpactWX chair in severe storms engineering and NTP/NHP research lead. Tornadoes form in the updraft of a thunderstorm and can result in devastating damage. Similarly, hail is created when raindrops get caught in a strong updraft.
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