Chasing from Europe - Forgot a Ruler?

[rdale]

Anyone know the diameter of a Euro coin off the top of their head

0153 195 MAYSVILLE GARVIN OK 3482 9741 HAIL WAS ABOUT TWICE THE DIAMETER OF A 1 EURO COIN. REPORTED BY A METEOROLOGIST FROM MUNICH GERMANY. (OUN)

 

[Paul Sherman]

Hi there,

A Euro is Just about an Inch in diameter. So these must have been 2" Stones

Paul Sherman

 

[Tim Stoecklein]

A Euro is Just about an Inch in diameter. So these must have been 2" Stones

Does that account for the current US/Euro exchange rate Paul?

 

[Paul Sherman]

Ooops Forgot about that Tim Make that 1.89" with the Commission!

 

[Mike Peregrine]

And do UK spotters refuse to offer hail measurements in euro?

Actually, what does the UK use? You have more choices of coins over there - I still have a drawer full. It's increasing in value practically every day.

 

[Chad Cowan]

I guess the German, and most Europeans, don't want to weigh down their pockets with our insignificant currency. It would probably be more valuable to stuff their pockets with corn.

 

[Paul Sherman]

Keep those Coins Mike for your next trip, our £ goes a long way when we come over Stateside, looking forward to it this year we arrive on Sunday and dont go back until June 2nd

In the Uk we tend to measure in much smaller quantities, recently had Marble sized hail last week, but last year we had Golfball Sized Hail near Canterbury (Kent) from a Supercell on July 15th 2007.

Dont know what the largest size is, one of the Torro Boys will have the record size for the Uk

Paul S

 

[Paul Knightley]

Largest recorded was in Horsham, Sussex, on 5th September 1958. It was about tennis ball sized. More info here, including the TORRO hail scale. http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/research/ukhailstorms.php

 

[Alan Broerse]

Hi there,

A Euro is Just about an Inch in diameter. So these must have been 2" Stones

Paul Sherman

______________________________________________________________ That would be about right......I have a 13 hail dings in the hood of my 08 Expedition that match up to 2" hail stones. Nice LP storm....but it went from pea size to golfball to bigger in 2 minutes time. LP's are notorious for doing that. I didnt see the baseball hail....but that was intentional....

 

[Lars Lowinski]

Hi guys,

the report was from us. We´re stormchasers from Munich, Germany and had this lucky catch because we just arrived a few hours before at DFW airport and were heading for the dryline bulge.

We only had some Euro coins that evening as we hadn´t already spent some Dollars. But I´d prefer not having corn in my pockets except if the inflow is blowing it into it. Staying in Vernon, TX right now in crappy tstm mess...

Best regards,
Lars

 

[Marko Korosec]

Here you can see diameters of Euro coins, in case this happens again: http://www.euro.gov.uk/eurocoins.asp

In my country we use some classic words to talk about hail size; like egg, orange, nut, wallnut, etc.

Oh..., good luck and stay safe, Lars!