What The Hail???

[Barbara Need]

I have also noticed that pictures of hail are likely to include a
coins for scale, so that might contribute to the terms.

Barbara Need
Chicago

On 12 Aug 2008, at 9:04, Marc Velasco wrote:

> I suspect, although working meteorologists might be sought for
> confirmation,
> that the use of coin-size denominations of hail is an attempt at using
> something 'universal' and very basic in an attempt to convey safety
> warnings.  So perhaps dimes are more common than cherry tomatoes as
> lexical
> markers.

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