Climate News Network: IT HAPPENED AS Tigran Gasparian and his family were having lunch. A massive black cloud turned day to night in minutes. Then the hail hammered on the roof.
"It was deafening", says Tigran. "I've never seen anything like it. The winds swirled around -- like a tornado. It went on for 45 minutes. At the end the hail was falling in big pieces like bits of broken glass. We knew all our crops had been destroyed."
Farmers here have heard talk of climate change: many say the summers -- when temperatures...