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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.
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What is correct about hail?
Hail is made up of frozen pellets of rain that is made in cumulonimbus clouds. Hail is frozen water crystals that fall from the sky. Hail can range in size from an eighth of an inch to the size of a grapefruit.
What ice crystals that fall from the sky called?
The ice crystals that fall from the sky are called snow or snowflakes.
What are frozen drps of rain that fall as pellets of ice in winter?
The word you are looking for is 'hail'
Water drops that freeze in layers around small nuclei of ice during thunderstorms?
Answer:Hail
What causes rain or hail to begin to fall?
rain: the clouds collect eough water from the ocean to the clouds and the clouds get too heavy and have to fall down. hail: the water from the clouds get frozen and turn into snow
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.
What the difference between snow sleet and hail?
Snowflakes are lighter than the more frozen denser hail.
Is sleet and hail the same?
Sleet is heavier and worst then hail. Yes, and No! They are both frozen rain and they are both unpleasant. The main differences are the times of year they fall and the weather conditions that produce them.
Is hail partly water?
Hail is entirely frozen water.
Is hail formed by rain?
Hail is frozen rain drops.
What is the main difference between rain and hail?
Hail is frozen, rain is not.
What is this type of precipitation is water that fall from clouds in a fluffy frozen state?
Water. Snow, hail, or any frozen substance any form of precipitation is frozen water. It can be warmer or colder in the atmosphere, depending on the front. What happens is water freezes at a temperature of 32.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Hail is formed when the water freezes, gets wet, and that layer freezes. This can happen several times, and you can have dangerous, golf ball sized hail.
