Editing Storm (section)

=== Agriculture ===
Hail can cause serious damage, notably to [[automobile]]s, aircraft, skylights, glass-roofed structures, livestock, and most commonly, farmers' [[crops]].<ref name="Nolanhail">{{cite journal|url=http://www.cocorahs.org/media/docs/hail_1994.pdf|title=Hail, Hail, Hail ! The Summertime Hazard of Eastern Colorado|author=Nolan J. Doesken|journal=Colorado Climate|volume=17|issue=7|date=April 1994|access-date=2009-07-18|archive-date=25 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125163951/http://cocorahs.org/media/docs/hail_1994.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Wheat, corn, soybeans, and tobacco are the most sensitive crops to hail damage.<ref name="Oliver">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mwbAsxpRr0C&pg=PA401|title=Encyclopedia of World Climatology|author=John E. Oliver|page=401|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4020-3264-6|year=2005}}</ref>  Hail is one of Canada's most expensive hazards.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s6oxEraqWWwC&q=hail&pg=RA1-PA61|title=Introduction to international disaster management|author=Damon P. Coppola|page=62|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7506-7982-4|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann}}</ref>  Snowfall can be beneficial to agriculture by serving as a [[thermal insulation|thermal insulator]], conserving the heat of the Earth and protecting [[agriculture|crops]] from subfreezing weather. Some agricultural areas depend on an accumulation of snow during winter that will melt gradually in spring, providing water for crop growth. If it melts into water and refreezes upon sensitive crops, such as oranges, the resulting ice will protect the fruit from exposure to lower temperatures.<ref>{{cite web|author=M. Baldwin|url=http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01243.htm|title=How Cold Can Water Get?|publisher=[[Argonne National Laboratory]] |date=8 September 2002 |access-date=2009-04-16}}</ref>  Although tropical [[cyclone]]s take an enormous toll in lives and personal property, they may be important factors in the [[precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]] regimes of places they affect and bring much-needed precipitation to otherwise dry regions. Hurricanes in the eastern north Pacific often supply moisture to the Southwestern United States and parts of Mexico.<ref name="2005 EPac outlook">[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] [http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Epac_hurr/Epac_hurricane.html 2005 Tropical Eastern North Pacific Hurricane Outlook] accessed 2 May 2006</ref> Japan receives over half of its rainfall from typhoons.<ref name="Whipple 54">{{cite book | author =  Whipple, Addison | year = 1982 | title = Storm | url =  https://archive.org/details/storm00whip | url-access =  registration | pages =  [https://archive.org/details/storm00whip/page/54 54] | location = [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria, VA]] | publisher = [[Time Life]] Books | isbn =  0-8094-4312-0}}</ref> [[Hurricane Camille]] averted drought conditions and ended water deficits along much of its path,<ref name="Christopherson">{{cite book | author = Christopherson, Robert W. | year = 1992 | title =  Geosystems: An Introduction to Physical Geography | pages = 222–224 | publisher = Macmillan Publishing Company | location = New York City | isbn = 0-02-322443-6}}</ref> though it also killed 259&nbsp;people and caused $9.14&nbsp;billion (2005 USD) in damage.