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Thunder snow is still one of the cooler things I’ve witnessed.
And I’ve been in 4 tornados
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Birmingham. We can get some pretty dramatic weather because of where we are and the way fronts move from southwest to northeast. Sometimes a competing system is moving northwest to southeast. Those recent crazy strong tornadoes is MS TN and KY are what happens when the fronts collide. The one that caused this weird hail didn’t seem special. A pretty typical intense short thunderstorm with strong winds coming from the SW. Some sort of bizarre circulation in the clouds made that disk hail. ChatGPT almost didn’t believe me but offered this explanation;
Possible Explanations for the Disk Shape
1. Laminar Accretion under Turbulent Rotation
If a small ice nucleus is spinning while suspended in an updraft, water can freeze more rapidly on the edges than on the faces, slowly forming a disk or lens.
2. Weak Updraft with Strong Lateral Shear
May result in limited vertical bouncing (which normally rounds hail) but more lateral tumbling, leading to flattened or saucer-like growth.
3. Melt Sculpting in Warm Air
While falling through the warm layer (80°F), slower-melting centers and faster-melting edges might have accentuated a flat shape, especially for small, dense hail.
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What city are you in?
So cool! Honestly, I think a lot co timed photos of that kind of thing don’t quite turn out anyway.