Snow and hail are different because they form in different ways. Snow forms when water vapor goes directly into the solid phase (ice) without becoming liquid water, forming the delicate crystals we call snowflakes. Hail stars out as snowflakes in the frigid upper reaches of a strong thunderstorm. Rime accumulates on a snowflake, turning it into a pellet of graupel. That pellet is held in the air by the strong updraft of the thunderstorm, making multiple trips up and down, accumulating a layer of ice with each trip. Eventually the new hailstone either becomes too heavy or moves to a weaker part of the updraft and falls.
Not exactly. Hailstone is to hail as raindrop is to rain. Hailstones are the actual objects that fall to the ground. The term hail can be applied to the hailstones themselves, or to the phenomenon of hail falling.
Yes, both are frozen water. Snowflakes form when water crystalizes out of saturated air. Hail is formed when frozen raindrops are carried up and down by currents in a thunderstorm.
Snowflakes are lighter than the more frozen denser hail.
No. Hail does not turn into snow.
The 4 main precipitaions are rain, hail, sleek and snow
Precipitation is what causes rain, sleet, snow, and hail.:)
snow, rain, sleet, and hail
Snowflakes are lighter than the more frozen denser hail.
No. Hail does not turn into snow.
The ice crystals that fall from the sky are called snow or snowflakes.
Hail are balls of ice and snow falling. Rain is water droplets falling.
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The 4 main precipitaions are rain, hail, sleek and snow
because hail can hurt you but snow can't
no hail bangs snow and it becomes rain then rain comes down from clouds and tries to go to ur talwar and then u get byy sam
* Rain * Snow * Sleet * Hail * Freezing Rain
Pieces of ice falling from clouds is called snow or hail.
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hail,rain,and snow