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How can the same cumulonimbus cloud produce rain and hail?
Inside a cumulonimbus cloud, there are updrafts that carry water droplets to colder altitudes where they freeze into hailstones. These hailstones can grow as they move up and down in the cloud, eventually becoming heavy enough to fall to the ground as hail. At the same time, the cloud produces rain from the water droplets that don't freeze into hailstones and are too heavy to remain in the cloud.
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.
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.
Why do fog droplets remain suspended in the air?
Fog droplets remain suspended in the air due to the balanced forces of gravity pulling them down and the upward force of air resistance or buoyancy pushing them up. As long as these forces are in equilibrium, the fog droplets can remain suspended for an extended period of time.
Snowflakes and hailstones were once water vapor describe what happens to the vapor to form snowflakes and hailstones?
Water vapor form snowflakes when the temperatures in the air are above freezing and the air should be unsaturated. The water vapor to create hailstones start inside a cumulonimbus cloud and super cooled liquid water are caught in a strong updraft. The cycle continues to increase the size of the hailstone, then eventually falls to the earth's surface.
What happens when water goes from liquid to solid in a cloud?
It is called hailstones or ice.
How can the same cumulonimbus cloud produce rain and hail?
Inside a cumulonimbus cloud, there are updrafts that carry water droplets to colder altitudes where they freeze into hailstones. These hailstones can grow as they move up and down in the cloud, eventually becoming heavy enough to fall to the ground as hail. At the same time, the cloud produces rain from the water droplets that don't freeze into hailstones and are too heavy to remain in the cloud.
What change of state occurs when hailstones form?
When hailstones form, the change of state that occurs is liquid water droplets in the cloud freezing into ice pellets as they are carried up and down by strong air currents within the thunderstorm cloud.
What shape is hail?
Hailstones can have various shapes, including round, conical, or irregular. Their shape is influenced by factors such as the formation process, temperature gradients, and collisions with other hailstones or particles in the cloud.
What do you call the water droplets suspended in air?
A cloud.
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.
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 is it called when millions of drops of water suspended in the sky?
Cloud.
What is a water drops suspended in air called?
Cloud
What kind of a cloud is cumulonimbus?
Cumulonimbus clouds have a large and tall horizontal appearance. They are capable of producing severe weather conditions such as thunderstorms and hailstones.
Is a cloud a compound?
No. A cloud is a heterogeneous mixture. It consists of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in air, which is itself a mixture.
Sighns of a tornado?
A wall cloud is suspended from a cumulonimbus cloud (mostly during thunderstorms). Then the wall cloud begins rotating counter-clockwise. Then a funnel cloud will drop from it.
