Goodness Gracious Great Balls Of Ice

So this Spanish g
uy has a theory that i
ncreased a
tmospheric flu
ctuations due to global warming are responsible for an increase
in the
frequency a
nd mass of random falling blocks of ice. These megacryometeors can weigh 10-20 Kgs and fall out of apparently clear skies. I was pretty equanimous about all this, and then I read this happy thought…

And great (excessively oppressive) hailstones, as heavy as a talent [between fifty and sixty pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people; and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail, so very great was [the torture] of that plague.(1)