Historical and projected trends of hailstorm days in relation to temperature anomalies and the PDO. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63028-7 A research team led by Professor Zhang Qinghong and Li Rumeng from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Peking University (PKU) School of Physics, has found that hailstorms in China have surged since the Industrial Revolution, likely due to human-driven climate warming. Th