If you heard the ping-ping of hail on your roof sometime last month, you were not alone.
State Climatologist Justin Glisan says we had 130 severe hail reports in April, and it wasn’t limited to Iowa. “You look across the Midwest and even the southern states, monster hail across the southern states. We haven’t seen that size of hail on a widespread basis here in Iowa,” he says.
There were many reports of hail big enough to do some damage. “We did have 21 reports of two inch or more diameter hail across the state,” Glisan says. There were reports and pictures online of hail in some cases covered the ground and made it look like it had snowed…