Hail is frozen balls of ice that form when a drop of water falls from a cloud. It then freezes if the temperature is cold enough in the sky,then falls to the ground as a frozen lump. Hail has been known to be the size of a golf ball!!
When hail falls to the ground, it is because of the force of FRICTION!! :)
No. In fact hail forms best when it is warm. No matter how warm the weather is at the ground, it will always be well below freezing in the upper troposphere. Hail is a phenomenon that occurs during thunderstorms with strong updrafts, which form best when air near the ground is warm and moist.Sleet, which is sometimes confused with hail, does require cold temperatures around freezing.
Hail begins as a drop of water falling toward earth. In conditions that produce hail, rain clouds and such, there are areas were the wind blows downwrd and also upward producing very turbulent conditions. There is very cold air in the upper atmosphere. As a drop o rain(mostiure) falls, it is caught by updrafts of air and pushed high up into the very cold air and the outside of the mosture crytalizes into ice. This may occur a few or many times and the number of times the drop returnsto the upper atmosphere determines the size of the hail, for each time the drop travels upward more ice forms and the drop increases in size, until finally there is so much ice attached until gravity takes over and pulls the drop, which is now what we know as hail, down and out of the effect of updrafts and it falls to earth. In every piece of hail there is the minute drop of water that developed into he ball of ice we know as hail.
Generally, a drop in air pressure causes precipitation - rain, snow, sleet, hail, and so forth.
Hail is frozen balls of ice that form when a drop of water falls from a cloud. It then freezes if the temperature is cold enough in the sky,then falls to the ground as a frozen lump. Hail has been known to be the size of a golf ball!!
When hail falls to the ground, it is because of the force of FRICTION!! :)
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well snow will only stick alot if its thick and hail stones is soled
Drop to the ground, don protective mask (if not donned already)
The only harmful thing I know about hail is that the cloud can produce huge drops of water that cools down on the way down (making hail) and if the hail contains huge clumps of ice they can damage about anything on the ground.
No. In fact hail forms best when it is warm. No matter how warm the weather is at the ground, it will always be well below freezing in the upper troposphere. Hail is a phenomenon that occurs during thunderstorms with strong updrafts, which form best when air near the ground is warm and moist.Sleet, which is sometimes confused with hail, does require cold temperatures around freezing.
No. In fact hail forms best when it is warm. No matter how warm the weather is at the ground, it will always be well below freezing in the upper troposphere. Hail is a phenomenon that occurs during thunderstorms with strong updrafts, which form best when air near the ground is warm and moist.Sleet, which is sometimes confused with hail, does require cold temperatures around freezing.
Rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the ground
Hail begins as a drop of water falling toward earth. In conditions that produce hail, rain clouds and such, there are areas were the wind blows downwrd and also upward producing very turbulent conditions. There is very cold air in the upper atmosphere. As a drop o rain(mostiure) falls, it is caught by updrafts of air and pushed high up into the very cold air and the outside of the mosture crytalizes into ice. This may occur a few or many times and the number of times the drop returnsto the upper atmosphere determines the size of the hail, for each time the drop travels upward more ice forms and the drop increases in size, until finally there is so much ice attached until gravity takes over and pulls the drop, which is now what we know as hail, down and out of the effect of updrafts and it falls to earth. In every piece of hail there is the minute drop of water that developed into he ball of ice we know as hail.
Hail is created when supercooled water drops come in contact with strong winds from thunderstorms. The water is pushed into higher altitudes where it freezes. It then falls to the ground as hail before it melts back to rain.