Market Talk – April 4, 2025
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 955.35 points or -2.75% to 33,780.58 • Shanghai closed • Hang Seng closed • ASX [...]
Hailstone not Snow
The report of a reader saying it snowed in Rome was an incorrect translation. It was Hailstones. The same thing took place in Calgary. Although strange, they are not unknown even in summer. Hailstones are large, layered ice particles, often spherical in shape. They are produced by thunderstorms having strong, tilted updrafts. Hailstorms form within an unusually unstable air mass. In the case of Calgary, it could have been set off by the wildfires combining with Volcanic particles.
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