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Researchers are measuring and scanning samples for a global ‘hailstone library’. Storm simulations using 3-D modelling of real hailstones — in all sorts of weird shapes from oblong to flat discs or with spikes coming out — show it behaves differently than spherical hail shapes. Data from the hail library could lead to more accurate storm forecasts.