When touring in a hire car in Northern Spain mid summer many years ago we encountered a severe thunderstorm and pulled over until it past. Several others followed as it was impossible to drive in the huge hailstones followed by torrential rain. Even so I was surprised when we saw the car parked in front had its windscreen smashed
That sounds horrendous. How did the aluminium bodywork cope with huge hailstones? No dents I hope?
It was a tin top hire car Tom so coped fine but we did have some shelter from a tree. No doubt thin aluminium without protection would have been damaged though.
Have first hand experience of what can happen to a light plane flying through a mature thunderstorm at 150 mph
