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Is hail made of ice crystals?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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The air a few miles above the ground is always cold enough for water to freeze. Hail starts off as small pellets of ice called graupel in the cold, upper reaches od a thunderstorm. This graupel is cycled through the storm by powerful air currents. As this happens, the pellets collide with supercooled water droplets, in which water remains liquid below its normal freezing point. These droplets freeze instantly to the surface. Hailstones grow by accumulating layers of ice in the manner. Eventually the hail becomes too heavy to remains suspended in the storm and falls to the ground. The hail is large enough and falls fast enough that it does not have time to melt.

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11y ago

Hail is a solid form of precipitation which consists of lumps of ice that are individually called hailstones.

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Hail is made up of round chunks of ice called hailstones

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14y ago

they are made from rain. as it falls it freezes causing ice but in the form of rain.

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13y ago

it is made of frozen water which is ice :P

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10y ago

Yes. Hail is composed of ice and ice is a crystalline solid.

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Rain is liquid water that falls from the sky. Snow, sleet, and hail are ice.

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Hail stones are rain droplets that have been frozen in the atmosphere.

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15y ago

== == Water Crystals and Ice

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