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You don't really find mosquitoes where you're likely to find hailstorms.

Are you thinking of sleet? Hail is associated with severe thunderstorms,[1] which definitely occur in areas with mosquito populations.

[1] http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/hail-or-sleet-h...

In Spain we definitely have mosquitos, and most Augusts we have these summery storms, sometimes bringing also hailstorms (sizze varies though between drop sized ice and golfball sized ice)

You find them in these areas. When it gets cold there tends to be far fewer of them.

And compared to the equators its nearly incomparible.

Cold isn't required for hailstorms. The ice forms at altitude. We have a lot of hailstorms in the spring and summer in Colorado, and while it isn't the mosquitoiest place I've ever lived, there are mosquitoes.

Compared with where its mosquito haven like by the Equator?

I suppose raindrop vs hailstone is a reason is one of the reason's the density issues are so different.

Yeah. Mosquitoes are densest in the tropics where hailstorms are rare, but just about everywhere on earth short of Antarctica has some mosquitoes. I'd think mosquitoes would meet hailstones occasionally, though I can't really see the mosquito surviving it.

I just returned from a vacation in Wyoming where we were hit by a number of hailstorms, not to mention more common thunderstorms (it was a VERY wet and cold May). Still had to deal with mosquitos (but not nearly as bad as in mid-late summer).

Neat plastic bubble that where you live in!

I'd like to see you compare the density of mosquitoes in colder climates to those close to the equator.

I'd like to see you not really finding mosquitoes where you're likely to find hailstorms.

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