Climate List...

Attached is a little press release that we have just issued concerning 
the big hailstorm back on July 16th that struck northern Chittenden 
County, especially Westford.

Turns out that one hailstone that coincidentally fell at one of our 
employees house set the Vermont record for the largest documented 
hailstone. It took a few weeks to go through a formal process to fact 
check and pull a little group together to verify the measurements...thus 
the press release finally happening today.

We have also put a comprehensive writeup of the events of July 16th on 
our webpage. This covers not only the hail storm, but the Orange County 
tornado as well.   Many thanks to Brooke Taber, one of the forecasters 
here, for doing the excellent job of going deep into the science and 
radar analysis of the day.

That webpage is: http://weather.gov/btv/events/16Jul2009/

We've also uploaded higher resolution version pictures of the hailstone 
at: http://weather.gov/btv/photos

Lastly, the employee who was able to capture the big hailstone also put 
together a nice little summary, including a number of pictures he 
obtained from neighbors around town, on his personal webpage:  
http://westfordweather.net/hail.php     


-- 
Andy Nash
Meteorologist-in-Charge
NOAA/National Weather Service Burlington VT
http://weather.gov/burlington
802-862-8711 x222