(The Center Square) – A group of researchers from Northern Illinois University are planning to get up close and personal with thunderstorms in the Great Plains this spring to study the effects of hail.
The National Science Foundation-backed field study will take the researchers to Texas, Oklahoma and possibly Illinois in search of hail storms. The project will include around 100 researchers, including NIU students, who are planning fieldwork this coming May and June.
“Our goal is to make a pretty big generational leap forward in our understanding of hail, how it forms, hail size and hail forecasting,” said NIU Atmospheric Science professor Victor Gensini, who is leading the study…