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Hail forms in thunderstorms (cumulonimbus clouds) when large updrafts carry water droplets high into the atmosphere where the air is much colder. The water freezes into ice and falls, only to be carried back up again by another updraft, where another layer of ice accumulates on the outside. After numerous trips, gaining more and more layers, the hailstone is too heavy to be lifted aloft by the updrafts, and falls to the ground.
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Does hail fall from the cloud as hail or rain?
It forms as hail. Hail actually starts out in the upper portion of a thunderstorm a graupel, a form of ice pellet somewhat between sleet and snow. The pellets collect layer after layer of ice until the fall out of the thunderstorm.
How does hail from and what type of cloud is it?
the hail is formed in a big puffy cloud named a cumulonimbus
What falls from cumulonimbus?
Depending on the temperature and other conditions, it could be rain, snow or hail. But if the question is about what falls from cumulonimbus that most likely wouldn't fall from other cloud formations, then the answer would be hail. It's the vertical activity that gives the cumulonimbus cloud its distinctive shape, and it's the vertical activity that forms hail...especially large hail stones.
What is the cloud that produces hail?
Hail comes from cumulonimbus clouds.
Where can hail storms be located?
When cold weather hits an area of dense cloud cover, rain occurs (obviously). However, if strong wind blows the rain back upwards, it can freeze, and then fall as hail. So if a cold front comes through an area of cloud cover, and the wind is high, hail is likely to fall.
What is a heavy water that fall out of the cloud?
it is call hail
Is hail already frozen when it starts to fall?
Yes it is. Hail is simply water droplets that have been frozen while 'suspended' in a thunder cloud. The droplets get 'tossed around' by air currents in the cloud - until they're too heavy, and fall to earth.
Does hail fall from the cloud as hail or rain?
It forms as hail. Hail actually starts out in the upper portion of a thunderstorm a graupel, a form of ice pellet somewhat between sleet and snow. The pellets collect layer after layer of ice until the fall out of the thunderstorm.
How does hail from and what type of cloud is it?
the hail is formed in a big puffy cloud named a cumulonimbus
When drops of water in a cloud become heavy enough they fall to Earth as?
Rain or if it freezes, hail.
How can the same cumulonimbus cloud produce rain and hail?
Cumulonimbus clouds have a violet and erratic updraughts of air. Water which condenses out to fall as rain , can also be raised higher in the atmosphere by these updraughts, to a point where the water freezes in to hail. Because of the erratic nature of draughts in these clouds , both rain and hail can fall from the cloud.
What falls from cumulonimbus?
Depending on the temperature and other conditions, it could be rain, snow or hail. But if the question is about what falls from cumulonimbus that most likely wouldn't fall from other cloud formations, then the answer would be hail. It's the vertical activity that gives the cumulonimbus cloud its distinctive shape, and it's the vertical activity that forms hail...especially large hail stones.
When water droplets in a cloud combine become too heavy and fall to the ground as rain snow sleet or hail are expriencing?
precipitation
What Cloud droplets combine and grow large enough to fall to earth?
Precipitation. Usually it is rain, but it could be sleet, snow, or hail.
What is cloud droplets combine and grow large enough to fall to earth?
Precipitation. Usually it is rain, but it could be sleet, snow, or hail.
What is the cloud that produces hail?
Hail comes from cumulonimbus clouds.
Is hail formed in cloud?
yes it is
