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Hail requires strong updrafts to keep the hydrometeors suspended to accumulate ice. The only clouds that can normally support these updrafts are cumulus or cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds.
Hail requires TWO elements. One is an updraft and the other is that the water inside the cloud reaches the freezing level. This normally occurs only in cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds that extend to fairly high altitudes. Fair weather cumulus, for example, do not obtain the needed height to reach the freezing level.
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What does the size of a hailstone depend on?
It depends on how strong the updrafts in a thunderstorm are. The stronger these updrafts (winds), the larger the hailstone it can support. As long as the hail remains supported in the cloud, it will continue to accrete ice and grow larger.
How do you describe the weather conditions during which hailstones form and the process by which they form?
This is how they form they form when drops of rain freeze inside clouds with strong updraft winds like a large cumulonimbus cloud if the winds are strong enough they lift the hailstone through the inside of the cloud a hailstone may rise and fall many times each creating a new layer when it gets too heavy it falls down to the earths crust
How small was the smallest hailstone?
2cm
What type of cloud will tell you that snow may be coming and from what type of cloud will snow fall?
a grey one
How does humidity affect cloud type?
Because it the humidity is in the cloud it makes the cloud warm so the cloud rises. So then the cloud is higher up.
How are hailstones made?
Hailstones start off as a snowflake. In order to become a hailstone, a upwind has to blow it back up into the cloud and collect more water, snow, or ice. Then it freezes. This process can happen over and over again until the hailstone is heavy enough to fall out of the cloud. That's the process of a hailstone.
What does the size of a hailstone depend on?
It depends on how strong the updrafts in a thunderstorm are. The stronger these updrafts (winds), the larger the hailstone it can support. As long as the hail remains supported in the cloud, it will continue to accrete ice and grow larger.
When a large hailstone is cut open 4 layers can be seen What conclusion can you draw about the formation of the hailstone?
It may show how hard it was raining in the cloud, or how much the amount of rain differed depending on the thickness of the ice layers. Hope this helped (:
How tall is Tony Hailstone?
Tony Hailstone is 6'.
When did Bernard Hailstone die?
Bernard Hailstone died in 1987.
When was Bernard Hailstone born?
Bernard Hailstone was born in 1910.
When was Dominic Hailstone born?
Dominic Hailstone was born in 1973.
When did Samuel Hailstone die?
Samuel Hailstone died in 1851.
When was Samuel Hailstone born?
Samuel Hailstone was born in 1768.
When was John Hailstone born?
John Hailstone was born in 1759.
When did John Hailstone die?
John Hailstone died in 1847.
Why do hailstorms occur?
Hail forms in storm clouds when supercooled water droplets freeze on contact with condensation nuclei, such as dust or dirt. The storm's updraft blows the hailstones to the upper part of the cloud. The updraft dissipates and the hailstones fall down, back into the updraft, and are lifted up again. The hailstone gains an ice layer and grows increasingly larger with each ascent. Once a hailstone becomes too heavy to be supported by the storm's updraft, it falls from the cloud. In large hailstones, latent heat released by further freezing may melt the outer shell of the hailstone. The hailstone then may undergo 'wet growth', where the liquid outer shell collects other smaller hailstones.
