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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.

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WHERE is hail from?

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!!


What is the connotative meaning of hail?

Pellets of ice that form when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops to high altitudes, where the water freezes and then falls back to Earth.


Is hail a solid liquid or gas?

No, hail is a solid form of precipitation.


How can rain and hail fall at the same cumulonimbus?

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.


How can the same cumulonimbus cloud produce rain or hail?

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.


Which is true about high clouds produce hail and tornadoes dont bring precipitation form fog or composed of liquid water?

High clouds generally don't bring precipitation.


How does hail form in the atmosphere?

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.


Why is it hailing?

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.


Does hail happen at -10 degrees Celsius?

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.


Why does hail fall from the sky?

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.


Would it be possible hail to fall from nimbostratus clouds?

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.


Kind of precipitation?

Precipitation includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail. Rain is the most common type of precipitation and occurs when water droplets in the atmosphere combine and fall to the ground. Snow forms when water vapor freezes into ice crystals, sleet is a frozen mix of rain and snow, and hail forms when strong updrafts carry water droplets high into a storm cloud where they freeze and grow before falling to the ground.