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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?
The smallest hailstone on record was about the size of a pea, approximately 0.2 inches (5 mm) in diameter.
What type of cloud will tell you that snow may be coming and from what type of cloud will snow fall?
a grey one
What does hail start out as?
Hail starts out as a small, frozen water droplet or ice particle that is lifted by strong updrafts in a thunderstorm cloud. As the particle moves up and down in the cloud, it collects more water and freezes into a larger hailstone before eventually falling to the ground.
When a large hailstone is cut open 4 layers can be seen What conclusion can you draw about the formation of the hailstone?
The presence of four distinct layers in a hailstone suggests that it formed through multiple cycles of freezing and thawing within a cloud, where each layer corresponds to a different cycle of ice accretion. This process likely occurred as the hailstone was carried through varying temperature and humidity zones within the cloud, leading to the formation of the layered structure.
How do hail pellets get bigger?
Hail pellets get bigger through a process called accretion, where supercooled water droplets in a thunderstorm freeze onto a hailstone as it is lifted and falls through the storm multiple times. The hailstone grows as more water freezes onto it, creating layers of ice. The stronger the updrafts in the storm, the more times the hailstone is lifted and falls through the storm, allowing it to accumulate more ice and grow in size.
How tall is Tony Hailstone?
Tony Hailstone is 6'.
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 did Bernard Hailstone die?
Bernard Hailstone died in 1987.
When was Bernard Hailstone born?
Bernard Hailstone was born in 1910.
When was John Hailstone born?
John Hailstone was born in 1759.
When did John Hailstone die?
John Hailstone died in 1847.
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.
What does a hailstone look like?
hailstone looks like lumps of ice
