Climate Change is Sizing up Storms

Sunday July 5, 2026

Heather Waugh collected a handfjull of pea-sized hail following a powerful thunderstorm last June, in Pointe-du-Chêne, NB.

Did you know that a single, significant thunderstorm can drop tens of millions to billions of hailstones? The exact count depends on the size of the storm, its duration and concentration of frozen precipitation. Size…