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.
no it usually comes from cumulous or cumulonimbus clouds nimbostratus clouds are that produce rain and are gray without a specific shape.
a rain cloud probally
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.
the hail is formed in a big puffy cloud named a 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.
Hail comes from cumulonimbus clouds.
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.
it is call hail
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.
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.
the hail is formed in a big puffy cloud named a cumulonimbus
Rain or if it freezes, 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.
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.
precipitation
Precipitation. Usually it is rain, but it could be sleet, snow, or hail.
Precipitation. Usually it is rain, but it could be sleet, snow, or hail.
Hail comes from cumulonimbus clouds.
yes it is