Video: Hail to Duluth

One of these days it would be fun to come up with other ways of measuring hail. Traditionally, it’s described as pea-sized (just heard the TV anchor warn Belle Plaine the peas are heading your way, by the way) , nickel-sized, golf-ball-sized or baseball-sized hail. We have a thing for food, money and sports in our weather science.

Anyway, they got hail in Duluth last evening. From the looks of things, it was the size of snickerdoodles.

@kare11 My sidewalk at 1:00 am pic.twitter.com/C0RkizsQlB

— Bruce Maeda (@BruceMaeda) May 8, 2014

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Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.