It is not so much the height as it is the number of times the strong up draft carries the slowly building wet iceballs back up to the freezing zone before they finally fall out of the cloud. The more trips up, the bigger the hail.
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!!
A cumulonimbus cloud can produce rain or hail depending on the strength of updrafts within the cloud. If the updrafts are strong enough to carry water droplets high into the cloud where they freeze, hailstones may form. If the updrafts are not as strong, the water droplets will fall as rain.
No, hail typically forms in cumulonimbus clouds due to strong updrafts and freezing temperatures at high altitudes. Nimbostratus clouds are generally associated with steady, light to moderate precipitation, such as rain or snow, and do not have the intense vertical growth needed for hail formation.
Yes, hail can form at temperatures below freezing, typically around -10 to -20 degrees Celsius. As water droplets are carried high into the atmosphere by updrafts, they freeze and can accumulate to form hailstones before falling to the ground.
Hail typically forms in thunderstorm environments where there are strong updrafts, allowing water droplets to be carried high into the atmosphere where temperatures are below freezing. Hail can occur when the temperature at the cloud base is above freezing, but in the upper levels of the storm, it must be cold enough (generally below 0°C or 32°F) for the water droplets to freeze and form ice pellets. The size and severity of hail depend on the strength of the updrafts and the amount of supercooled water present in the storm.
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!!
Pellets of ice that form when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops to high altitudes, where the water freezes and then falls back to Earth.
No, hail is a solid form of precipitation.
Hail forms in strong thunderstorms with intense updrafts. As water droplets are lifted high into the cloud, they freeze and collect layers of ice. When they become too heavy for the updrafts to support, they fall to the ground as hailstones. The size of the hailstones depends on the strength of the updrafts and the amount of moisture in the cloud.
Updrafts in cumulonimbus systems can cause some rain drops to rise up. They reach high altitudes where the temperatures are low enough for the droplet to freeze. They can then fall, collecting a layer of water on the outside, then rise again to form a larger hail stone. Eventually the hailstone is too large for the updraft to raise it. But away from the core of the updraft, the condensed raindrops can fall as normal rain.
A cumulonimbus cloud can produce rain or hail depending on the strength of updrafts within the cloud. If the updrafts are strong enough to carry water droplets high into the cloud where they freeze, hailstones may form. If the updrafts are not as strong, the water droplets will fall as rain.
High clouds generally don't bring precipitation.
Hail forms in the atmosphere when strong updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops high into the cold upper atmosphere where they freeze into ice pellets. As the hailstones grow larger, they eventually become too heavy for the updrafts to support and fall to the ground.
Hail forms when strong updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops high into the cold upper atmosphere, where they freeze into ice. These ice pellets then fall to the ground as hail.
No, hail typically forms in cumulonimbus clouds due to strong updrafts and freezing temperatures at high altitudes. Nimbostratus clouds are generally associated with steady, light to moderate precipitation, such as rain or snow, and do not have the intense vertical growth needed for hail formation.
Yes, hail can form at temperatures below freezing, typically around -10 to -20 degrees Celsius. As water droplets are carried high into the atmosphere by updrafts, they freeze and can accumulate to form hailstones before falling to the ground.
Hail falls from the sky when strong updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops high into the cold upper atmosphere, where they freeze into ice pellets. These pellets grow larger as they are carried up and down by the updrafts, eventually becoming heavy enough to fall to the ground as hail.