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Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme

Shamerok, Texas (AP) – as Storms Again, soak, and the Twist and meet in the middle section in the country, a team of dozens of scientists who lead them to study one of the most dangerous weather in the country but the least estimated: cold.

It rarely kills the cold, but it demands roofs, cars and crops of $ 10 billion a year Damage in the United States So in one of The remaining few of the scientific studies funded by the federal government After the Trump administration discounts, teams from many universities monitor storms from the inside and see how the cold is formed. Icechip project He already collected and dissected the cold with a small size, along with ice balls of all sizes and shapes.

Scientists in two cars engraved for cold with a private network that protects the windshield lead directly to the heart of storms, an area known as the “column” where the cold is the most dense. It is an ice development of its kind on hunting.

“It is an interesting experience. It seems that someone in the outer part of your car is hitting you with a hammer,” said Victor Jennsini, one of the main researchers, one of the main researchers.

A team of journalists from the Associated Press joined them this week on a daily trip for the major plains, starting from Tuesday morning in northern Texas with the weather briefing before joining a convoy of scientists and students looking for ice.

Driving towards the most extreme expectations

The convoy features more than ten radar trucks and cars to launch a weather balloon. In each site, scientists download and empty drones, lasers, cameras, and other specialized equipment. There are foam platforms to measure the cold effect and experimental roofing materials. There are even a person’s size of a person to collect virgin cold before hitting the ground and becoming contaminated with dirt.

Already on trips all over Kansas, Akllahoma and Texas, the cold team with a diameter of more than 5 inches (13 cm) – larger than the soft ball, but not a soccer ball. The team’s sports equipment and vehicles are already, boils and scratches that scientists show, such as battle scars.

“We got a few good strikes,” said Tim Marshall, forensic engineer, who was carrying roofing samples to see if there were ways to better deal with the cold. “I look at the broken things, which have been set all the time.”

In the weather on Tuesday, retirement National weather service Devid Emmy referred to potential hot areas this week in Texas, Akllahoma and New Mexico. He said that computer models show the possibility of a “monster storm here near the Red River” later in the week. Based on the latest expectations, Gensini and other leaders asked the team to go to Altus, Oklahoma, but be ready to cross the red river to Texas in a moment.

A few hours after his briefing, Amy had the opportunity to chase one of the largest storms, as the radar showed was a large radar at an altitude of 8000 feet (2438 meters) in the air. Because of the warm air closer to the surface, the cold was only the size of the peas at the time when it hit the ground. But the picnic still provides good data and beautiful views of IMY, which was with a group that focuses on nearly half a mile of the center of the storm.

“Beautiful colors: turquoise, bluish green, wild ducks,” said Amy, referring to the cloud in the form of a mushroom dominating the sky. “This is the beauty for me and also seeing the power of nature.”

A problem with the hard weather, but overlooking it

This is not just a group of scientists looking for adrenaline or another supplement for the movie “Twitter”. Ginseni said it is a serious scientific research to destroy many crops in the Middle West. The cold damage is expensive to the extent that the insurance industry helps in paying the price of the task, which is funded in the first place by the National Science Corporation.

“These are the stones that cause the biggest damage to life and property,” said Ginseni. “We want the largest cold as possible.”

A 2024 studies from Gensini I found that as the world’s temperature rises from the climate change caused by a person, small cold stones will become less likely while the largest stones have become more common. It is expected that the Icechip team is 15 % to 75 % this century depending on the world temperature. This is because the most powerful tools in storms will keep the stones longer to get more, but the heat will melt the smallest.

Geninsini said that the experience is unique due to the combination of driving in the cold and the deployment of many radars and balloons of the weather to get a comprehensive picture of how to make storms, adding that the cold is often the cold Harsh weather events.

External scientists said that the research task seems promising because there are many questions that have not been answered about the cold. Meteorological specialist Jeff Master, who is now postponed at Yale Climate University, said.

“Now a large part of this reason is that we simply have more people who have more things on the way to harm,” said Master, who was not part of the research. “The insurance has become incomparable in many places and the cold has become a big reason.”

“In fact,” said Lori Beck, director of the University of Colorado University, “actually,” in fact, “in fact a more expensive natural disaster,” said Lori Beck, director of the University of Colorado University, adding that “cold causes incredible damage to property.”

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