Hail causes about $1 billion in damage to U.S. property and crops each year. Insurers would like to minimize those losses. That's where the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety comes in. On Wednesday morning, the Institute created a full-scale hailstorm inside its laboratory in Richburg, South Carolina – about an hour from Charlotte. WFAE's Julie Rose sent this report:
Tanya Brown has had a single obsession these past two years: how to make hail.
In the Carolinas, 2012 was a record-breaking year for extreme weather.
That's according to the National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit organization that broke down government climate data by state and county. The result is a map of high temperatures, big snowfalls and large wildfires that senior scientist Kim Knowlton said demonstrates what climate change looks like.
