Submitted by admin on April 23, 2009 - 00:27
Hail
Hail is most frequent in the south-west, where it is reported on about 20 days a year, but for the greater part of the country it occurs on about five days a year or less. Most of the hailstones are small, but occasionally large stones cause local damage to glasshouses and to orchards and market gardens, chiefly in Canterbury and Hawke's Bay.