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People living in Montemorelos in Mexico have witnessed hail stones they say look like the coronavirus, which are usually spherical and typically have big crown-like spikes.
According to the meteorologist and consultant of the World Meteorologist Organisation, Jose Miguel Vinas, the peculiar shape of the hailstone is actually a frequent occurrence in storms of magnitude.
Miguel Vinas told local media: "Inside a storm, a hailstone will start off as a small spherical form and accumulate layers of ice on top.
During very strong storms when the hailstone are already quite big and smash together, many of them fuse together, smashing together and squashing each other, forming spikes of ice. So what is falling is a squashed disks of ice, smashed into that shape by a violent blow or the fusing of different sized hailstones, which results in this star shape."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/coronavirus-shaped-hailstones-are-message-22051402
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According to the meteorologist and consultant of the World Meteorologist Organisation, Jose Miguel Vinas, the peculiar shape of the hailstone is actually a frequent occurrence in storms of magnitude.
Miguel Vinas told local media: "Inside a storm, a hailstone will start off as a small spherical form and accumulate layers of ice on top.
During very strong storms when the hailstone are already quite big and smash together, many of them fuse together, smashing together and squashing each other, forming spikes of ice. So what is falling is a squashed disks of ice, smashed into that shape by a violent blow or the fusing of different sized hailstones, which results in this star shape."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/coronavirus-shaped-hailstones-are-message-22051402
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