I have found that tracking hail events is likely the most reliable way to make historical comparisons to previous GSM climate events to gauge where we currently stand in the climate sense. Better than temperature, flood or snow comparisons.
Bracketing the Little Ice Age - Extreme to More Extreme
Extreme:
Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1803 - 1806
Saw a black cloud rise in the west which we looked for emediate rain we made all the haste possable but had not got half way before the Shower met us and our hind extletree broke in too we were obledged to leave the load Standing and ran in great confusion to Camp the hail being So large and the wind So high and violent in the plains, and we being naked we were much bruuzed by the large hail. Some nearly killed one knocked down three times, and others without hats or any thing about their heads bleading and complained verry much...The plains are so wet that we could doe nothing this evening. Sergeant John Ordway June 29, 1805 along the Portage Route around the Great Falls of the Missouri, Montana In the afternoon, there arose a storm of hard wind & rain; accompanied with amazing large hail at the upper camp. We caught several of the hail Stones which was measured & weighed by us, there were 7 inches in Surcumference and weighed 3 ounces— Captain Lewis made a small bowl of punch out of one of them. As luck would have it, we were all...Safe...the party that was at the upper camp, were under a good shelter, but we feel concerned about the men on the road with the baggage from the lower Camp— Private Joseph Whitehouse June 29, 1805 White Bear Island, Upper Portage Camp southwest Great Falls, Montana
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More Extreme:
On 5 April 1360, Edward III, King of England led his army of 10,000 men >>>>>
"Black Monday took place on Easter Monday (1360) during theHundred Years' War (1337 - 60), when a freak hail storm struck and killed an estimated 1,000 English soldiers. The storm was so devastating that it caused more English casualties than any of the previous battles of the war."
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Biblical:
Joshua 10:11
As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword. tinyurl.com
Revelation 16:21
And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.
Today:
Incredible/ brutal sized hail from Sydney, Australia this morning 20th December! [2018]
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