"Hail is not small, as big as bayberry!" The wiper in my car was also broken! "My rain shed has been smashed out of a hole!" "Surely it fell from the sky and wasn't taken out of the refrigerator?" At about 3 p.m. yesterday, accompanied by a burst of thunder, hail fell in Ningbo, and citizens broke the news. The reporter learned from the Ningbo Meteorological Observatory that hail appeared yesterday in Haishu District, Jiangbei District, Yinzhou District and other places with a diameter of about 3 centimeters.
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"Hail! Visually measuring 3 centimeters, it is about the size of an ordinary bayberry. "At 3 p.m. yesterday, Mr. Xu, who walked to the intersection of Changchun Road and Liuting Street, was hit by hail and quickly hid by a nearby building." It hurts a little bit to hit the body. Mr. Xu told reporters that he had also encountered hail in the summer, but yesterday's big hail was the first time it was encountered.
Summer is so hot, how can it rain so big hail? Guo Yuguang, chief announcer of the Municipal Meteorological Observatory, told reporters that the recent strengthening of the subtropical high-pressure forces in the western Pacific Ocean, the position of the north, the city is on its northern edge, affected by it, the 23rd began to heat up significantly, yesterday the maximum temperature reached about 35 ° C; In addition, yesterday there were high-altitude troughs in the north, low-level cold air penetrating southward, and the violent intersection of cold and warm air, bringing about this obvious strong convective weather, which created conditions for this hail.
Yesterday at 3 p.m., hail was photographed by the moon lake in haishu district. (Photo by Zheng Yonghong)
"Hail is normal in the summer, and only two conditions need to be met, the first is sufficient water vapor, and the second is strong convective air." Guo Yuguang told reporters that although there is a word "ice" in the hail, this weather phenomenon often occurs in the hot summer. In recent years, Ningbo has often hailed in the hot summer, such as: July 16, 2014, July 28, 2015, June 29, 2016, August 19, 2017.
According to reports, hail is a solid precipitation, like rain and snow, falling from clouds. It is a hard, spherical, cone-shaped or irregular solid precipitation that descends from the developing strong Cumulonimbus clouds to the ground.
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Although it is hot near the ground in the summer, it is still very cold at high altitudes. When strong convective air is encountered, the wet air near the ground rises rapidly with convection, condenses into Xiaoice crystals at high altitude, and constantly merges some small water droplets with low temperature when the Xiaoice crystals fall, and the ice crystals slowly become larger and form ice particles. The ice particles rolled larger and heavier in the air. When it is heavy to a certain extent, the updraft can no longer hold it, and it begins to land, and when it falls to the ground, it is hail. In winter, the temperature near the ground is very low and cannot produce a strong rapid updraft, so hail is difficult to form in winter.
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The car was hit by hail, can the insurance pay?
Yesterday, ningbo had many underground hailstones, and many car owners were unfortunately recruited, and Ms. Yang, a citizen, was one of them. "When the car drove to the door of the Sixth Hospital of Ningbo City, it rained a dense hailstone, ranging from 2 to 3 centimeters in size, and the paint surface on the front of the car was scratched!" Ms. Yang told reporters that she has lived in Ningbo for 40 years and has experienced such a large hail for the first time.
According to netizens, there were several cars parked on the side of the road yesterday whose glass was smashed.
The car was smashed by hail, the repair cost of ordinary models is about 1,000 yuan, and the first-class model is 10,000 yuan to start, can the insurance company pay?
"I can lose! Under the condition of ensuring their own safety, the owner of the car reports the case to the insurance company in a timely manner and retains relevant images as much as possible. Huang Jianjun, account manager of Ping An Insurance Ningbo Branch, told reporters that because hail disasters usually occur in local areas and are not included in force majeure, they belong to the coverage of car damage insurance, if the car damage insurance is insured, the vehicle is smashed by hail, you can pay the claim by calling the insurance company's customer service telephone.
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Source: Ningbo Net, China