Bring Ryan Gosling home.

If you thought you saw ice falling from the sky this morning, your eyes were not deceiving you. But it was also neither sleet nor hail.

Based on a hot as a supernova 2021 novel by Davis native Andy Weir (“The Martian” ), “Hail Mary” wraps divergent elements into popcorn entertainment that lifts off on a grand scale, a blockbuster that has a brain and a heart.

How does hail form? First, we need a thunderstorm to develop. As it strengthens, the updraft or vertical wind becomes faster. Water droplets are swept up by the updraft high into the storm, above the freezing level and freezing into a ball of ice.

A supercell thunderstorm this week produced an Illinois record for largest hailstones. What is the largest hail recorded in Connecticut?