Europe's biggest ever hailstone falls in northern Italy

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 26 - Europe's biggest ever hailstone fell in northern Italy Monday as hailstorms reaped death and destruction across swathes of the north, the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) said Tuesday.
    The hailstone that fell on Azzano Decimo near Pordenone was 19cm in diameter, beating the previous record, also in northern Italy, of 16cm set on July 19 at Carmignano di Brenta near Venice.
    The world record is held by a hailstone measuring 20.3 cm that fell in South Dakota in 2010. (ANSA).