Rising global hail damage potential in a warming world (opens in new tab)

Anthropogenic climate change (ACC) is expected to modify severe convective storms and their associated hazards, including hailstorms, a primary driver of weather-related economic losses1–4. Despite some research on the response of hailstorms to ACC, most studies have focused on regional-scale changes2–9, whereas global-scale assessments of hailstone size remain scarce. Here we show a 36.5–42.1% increase in global hailstorm-induced damage potential by the late twenty-first century, with the ma...