5-26-11 OK Reported Melon Sized Hail

[Amanda Farnham]

Has anyone else seen this? I'm not sure about the validity of this "hailstone". First of all, I haven't heard anything else about this anywhere. And secondly, this looks all too smooth and perfect, in my opinion. See the link below to see a picture of the "hailstone". I would think this would have rivaled the Vivian, SD stone from last year if it was true.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//ydownload/20110526/photos_net_web_wl/1306444734/

 

[Drew.Gardonia]

if you look closely at it, looks like it has been pieced together, there is a big line right through left third of it, i would say it's a sham.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

They froze it inside of a balloon.

 

[Josh Richardson]

There is no way that's real, IMO at that size it appears way to smooth to be a real hailstone.

 

[ChristianTerry]

Agreed with Josh, this is way to smooth to be real and has a line through it.

 

[Ben Kossow]

Way too smooth and something that size would have come apart on impact with the ground (or anything else). That's not even a good attempt at a fake, tbh.

 

[Amanda Farnham]

I didn't think it was real either. Someone else had posted it on another board, and I figured I would see what everyone here thought, since I hadn't heard squat about it. I figured it was far too smooth and perfect for it to be real, and besides, someone would have been all over it if it had been truth.

 

[Andrew Francis]

Not only is it not even close to the correct shape of hailstone - it is a photo taken in what appears to be a classroom.

Probably a lame high school project that involve freezing water inside a balloon like another poster above stated.

 

[Jason Foster]

Not only is it not even close to the correct shape of hailstone - it is a photo taken in what appears to be a classroom.

Probably a lame high school project that involve freezing water inside a balloon like another poster above stated.

Ding, ding, ding!!!!

If anything, a practical joke posted by HS (or even MS) kids, that got tweeted, FB'd etc. around the net till it got picked up by a source DESPERATE to run anything and everything to get high web traffic.