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Ice Falls (Not Hail): Hydrometeors; Cryometeors; Megacryometeors

A loud crash startled a California family at home Wednesday morning when a chunk of ice the size of a basketball hurdled from the sky and smashed through the roof, likely the result of frozen moisture breaking loose from an airplane flying high overhead.

Monica Savath said she and her family were in the living room of their Modesto home when they were shaken by the commotion. She said it sounded like a bomb exploding. Running to the attached garage, they found a gaping hole in the roof and shattered ice. Nobody was injured.

"What on earth happened?" Savath said in an interview with KOVR-TV.

Jim Mathews, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento, dismissed any meteorological explanation, given the area's clear blue skies and hot temperatures. He said an airplane is the most likely culprit and suspects the same moisture that creates long white trails behind jets can collect into a large ice block. One may have dislodged from a plane and found its way to the family's home, he said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/mystery-chunk-of-ice-crashes-onto-california-home/ar-AAea9fy
 
Not just ice, human shit encased in ice. Will the victims get justice?

An icy ball fell from the sky and landed on a Indian village in the northern state of Haryana.

Authorities believe the frozen mass is human waste that leaked from an aeroplane flying overhead.

It is normally disposed of once the plane has landed, but it has been known for it to come out midair.

Senior Gurgaon official Vivek Kalia said residents were startled by the “big thud” of the 10-12kg ice block hitting a field in the Fazilpur Baddi village.

Some locals thought the ball of ice was an “extra terrestrial” object, he said.

"People of the village came running out of their homes to find out what had happened,” he told the BBC. ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...pur-badli-village-gurgaon-alien-a8172361.html
 
WARNING : Journalist doesn't know how to use a spellchecker

A GRANDMOTHER had a chilling near miss - after ice is thought to have fallen from a plane and gauged a hole in her roof. Rose Rendle, 81, was listening to radio commentary of the Hibs game on Saturday afternoon at her Cramond bungalow when she heard a crash from above. Son William Rendle investigated to find slabs of ice and bits of tiles on her driveway - with a metre-wide gash on her slates. “If she’d been underneath that it would’ve killed her. But she’s survived bombs in the war so she can live through a chunk of ice,” said Mr Rendle, 58. Staff at Edinburgh Airport are now investigating and have vowed to visit Mrs Rendle in a bid to get to the bottom of the scare.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman....from-plane-crashed-through-her-roof-1-4809551
 
gauged a hole in her roof

So, how big did the ice gauge the hole to be? :D

A spellchecker wouldn't help there as 'gauge' is the correct spelling, for a different context, admittedly.
 
Ice falls are becoming a recurrent problem in southern California (check the final 2 paragraphs below).

Ice chunk falls out of the sky, cracks family's driveway
A California family said a huge chunk of ice apparently fell from an airplane and crashed down on their driveway, creating a large crack.

Angelica Coria said she and her family discovered the shattered ice ball in their Eastvale driveway and a fresh, 30-foot crack in the concrete.

"Ice fell from the sky and we don't know what happened," Coria told CBS Los Angeles.

She said the falling ice has made her "extremely fearful" of the planes that fly over her house each day.

Experts said the family's home is in a descent path for Los Angeles International Airport, so planes pass over the area almost once a minute.

A couple in nearby San Bernardino evaded injury last December when a chunk of ice suspected to have fallen from an airplane crashed through the roof of their home and punched a hole all the way to their bedroom.

The San Bernardino incident took place mere weeks after a similar ice ball crashed through the roof of a home in Chino.

SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/1...y-cracks-familys-driveway/3261539102444/?sl=6
 
Ice smashes through roof in Bristol

Block of ice smashes hole in roof, into Jamie Shean's bedroom.

“There was just this almighty ‘boom’, like a massive crash from the bedroom. It sounded like an explosion. I fully expected to find that someone had fired a firework through the window and it had gone off in the room.

“Then we looked around and saw all this ice, huge pieces of it, everywhere,” he added.

“It was a hell of a crash. I realised I would’ve been dead if I had been in bed at the time."

There was a gaping hole in the ceiling, and the pair peered up into it to see the night sky - something had crashed through the roof, smashing tiles, breaking a roof joist and piercing a huge hole in the ceiling.

Prime suspect is

A Thomas Cook flight from Banjul in Gambia flew south to north directly over Jamie’s home at 10.17pm.

When it passed overhead it was at 31,025ft and flying at 519 knots before descending to land at an airport in the West Midlands.

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A Thomas Cook flight from Banjul in Gambia flew south to north directly over Jamie’s home at 10.17pm.

When it passed overhead it was at 31,025ft and flying at 519 knots before descending to land at an airport in the West Midlands.

Interesting. I bet that Flightradar24 is useful for this sort of thing nowadays.

I wondered how FR24 would affect the chemtrails conspiracists (e.g. the ones who claim there are anonymous aircraft, shape-changing aircraft, etc.) when they could identify actual aircraft passing overhead, but it seems they've simply become more extreme (and the few aircraft they can't identify of course just add to the conspiracy).
 
From the FT.com Home page.
2 April. On this day in 1973, R.F.Griffiths, a Meteorologist out strolling near Manchester, was nearly *brained by a block of ice that fell at his feet. ...

Here's another account of the incident:

One well-documented ice fall was witnessed by a British meteorologist in 1973. While standing on a street corner in Manchester, R.F. Griffiths saw a huge chunk of ice smash to pieces on the road just 10 feet away. The largest piece recovered weighed 3.5 pounds.

SOURCE: https://www.liveabout.com/the-ice-is-falling-3862231

Here's the 2 October 1975 New Scientist article about the incident.

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“There were at least 27 documented incidents of blue ice impacts in the United States between 1979 and 2003. These incidents typically happen under airport landing paths as the mass warms sufficiently to detach from the plane during its descent.

A rare incident of falling blue ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20, 2006 in Chino, California. A similar incident was reported in Leicester, UK, in 2007.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(precipitation)

maximus otter
 
An as-yet-unexplained chunk of ice fell through the eave of a Florida family's roof.

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Large chunk of ice crashes through roof of Florida home

Residents of a Florida home had an unusual start to their day when a large chunk of ice fell out of the sky and punched a hole in their roof.

The Martin County Sheriff's Office said the ice chunk fell out of the sky Wednesday morning and punched a large hole through the roof near the edge of the Palm City home, causing the ice to land on the ground outside of the house rather than inside. ...

The sheriff's office said there were no reports of injuries from the ice chunk's plunge.

Deputies said they do not yet have an explanation for where the ice chunk came from.
FULL STORY (With Photos): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...s-through-roof-of-Florida-home/5471621538943/
 
Do they live under the flight path of any large aircraft, ice can accumulate on wings and then fall off.
That would be the most likely explanation. There's a local airport in the vicinity, possibly as close as 1.5 - 2 miles from the residential area. It could also have fallen off a larger airliner coming or going over that stretch of Florida coast.
 
I have this mental picture of a lot of planes with poorly maintained plumbing
 
This Wisconsin man was grazed by a nearly 13 pound chunk of ice that crashed through his bedroom ceiling.
12.6 pound ice chunk crashes through Elk Mound home

... While Mother Nature can be known for some pretty interesting weather, this strange icy incident left one Elk Mound family with a large hole right above their bed.

A large ball of ice, weighing 12.6 pounds, crashed through the bedroom ceiling.

"It grazed me," said homeowner Ken Millermon. "I would've probably been out, kicked the bucket [if it landed on me]. As soon as that came through, everything else was like dust of insulation. I couldn't see."

The 12 pounds of ice causing thousands in damage. ...

The big question on everyone's mind is where did it come from?

"There was a big black cloud above it. Of course we just had storms this morning," said neighbor Nathaniel Schery.

Officials from the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, Minnesota said Tuesday morning's storms weren't strong enough to cause any hail that big. ...

News 18 reached out to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's chemistry and biochemistry department to take samples and analyze the contents of the ice but haven't heard back as of publishing.
FULL STORY (With Video & Photos): https://wqow.com/2021/05/25/12-6-pound-ice-chunk-crashes-through-elk-mound-home/

See Also: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...-Mound-Wisconsin-Ken-Millermon/1361622057095/
 
(I can't find the appropriate thread for this and search is entirely failing me today. "Ice" returns no results. So, mods, please relocate as necessary.)

Chunk of ice falls on a home in a Philadelphia suburb
https://6abc.com/mysterious-chunk-of-ice-jesse-gonzales-elkins-park-home-damaged-gutter/13388126/


An interesting case of a cryometeor or falling ice chunk happened in a suburb of Philly on Thursday. A large chunk of ice, maybe 8 inches across, hit a home, damaging a gutter. It did not go through the roof, it split apart when it hit the ground. The suspected cause was ice from an aircraft. A plane can accumulate ice on the exterior which falls off on descent. Elkins Park is about 10 miles northeast of the PHL airport. The incident happened about 12:15. Just before noon, the weather changed as a front was moving through creating windy conditions. It would be possible to figure out which one of the 30-some planes that landed at PHL in a half-hour time span may have flown over the house but that would take me a good bit of time and not really help out this guy. It’s worth noting that there are some suspected cases of giant hailstones that form suddenly in unstable atmospheric conditions and then fall to earth. This might be a case of that too. It appears the guy took some of the ice, made it into a slushy and drank it as a stunt. That is not smart - ice traveling through the air collects pollutants and bacteria.
 

Large ice chunk falls from sky, damaging house in Massachusetts: ‘The loudest pop, bang I’ve ever heard”


A block of ice thought to weight between 6-9kg fell from the sky and smashed through the roof of a family home in the United States.

“We heard an explosion, basically... the loudest pop, bang I’ve ever heard,” said homeowner Jeff Ilg on Thursday, whose Massachusetts house was damaged.

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Mr Ilg said he and his wife, Amelia Rainville, suspect the ice fell off an airplane travelling to Boston Logan International Airport.

Mr Ilg and his wife collected four kilograms of ice in bags but there was plenty more to collect, he said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the incident.

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-08-17...hunk-of-ice-falls-through-roof-from-sky-in-us

maximus otter
 
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Ice block falls from plane onto barn in Loon op Zand

Two residents of Loon op Zand in Brabant were startled this morning by an ice block that fell on the roof of their barn. The ice very likely came from an aircraft.
Around 7.30am, the block of ice fell down and caused a big dent in the roof. "It looked like something collapsed," Monique Schoenmakers told Omroep Brabant. "Part of the roof turned out to be broken. There is also a hole in the chipboard underneath," the woman says:
0:58IJs block falls from plane on barn:'I heard a big bang'

A few times a year, ice falls from a plane down into the inhabited world. This happens, for example, when the temperature in the air rises or when the landing gear is folded out.
As recently as 2010, a man in Zwolle got a chunk of blue ice through the windscreen of his car. This was probably due to a leak in the seal of the flush tank of an overflying aircraft.

In almost all known cases in the Netherlands, it happened in places under flight paths, says astronomer Theo Jurriens of the University of Groningen.

Five planes per hour
"Sometimes as many as four or five planes per hour fly over here. You will just get one of those clumps of ice on your head, then you won't be able to live it down," says Schoenmakers.

As far as we know, no one has ever been injured in the Netherlands by falling ice from a plane. Whether the ice came from a flight from nearby Eindhoven Airport is not clear: "We can never exactly retrace whether this happened. In any case, we don't have any information about it."

https://nos.nl/artikel/2493707-ijsblok-valt-vanuit-vliegtuig-op-schuur-in-loon-op-zand
 
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