State Climatologist Justin Glisan says we had 130 severe hail reports in April, with 21 reports of two inch or more diameter hail across the state. Glisan says we didn’t have the widespread monster hail seen across the southern states. Glisan says certainly this happens when there is less directional wind shear in the thunderstorms, less rotation and more updrafts going higher up that create the hail Glisan says this month might have less hail than what we just experienced in April, as the short-term outlook for the first half of May are showing a cooler signal and also a lean dry signal.
