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Every hailstone begins to form as an ice nucleus, a small cluster of supercooled water droplets or clumps of snow. This center is called a graupel, and it may continue to accumulate ice, melt in the thundercloud and turn to rain, or be smashed apart by other graupels. If a bug, piece of bark, seed, or stick gets blown up into the storm cloud, it creates another possible nucleus for a hailstone.
If the thunderstorm is cold and windy enough, this graupel will accumulate layers of ice the way a dipped candle accumulates layers of wax, through a process called accretion. Opaque, whitish layers form when icy droplets trap air bubbles and stick to the graupel. Clear layers have accreted large drops of supercooled water that freeze when they encounter the hailstone. Of course, much larger hailstones can be made when two smaller ones freeze together.
Hail can accrete more layers when the hailstone blows up through layers of the thunderstorm. Even heavy hail will be kept aloft by strong enough updraughts. When the hail falls back through the storm due to gravity, it accretes even more layers, until it is so heavy it falls as precipitation. Hail forms in most tall, cumulonimbus storms that reach the colder upper atmosphere, but not all hail survives its trip once out of the thunderstorm.
The size of hail, once fully formed, varies from pinheads to softballs. A few outer layers frequently melt when the hail mixes with other warmer precipitation such as snow and rain. The National Weather Service has official size categories for hail that are useful for gauging the damage they can cause to crops. How hail forms gives us a window into the interior of a thunderstorm, helping meteorologists study the evolution of storms as well.
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Is hail balls of ice?
Yes, hail is a form of solid precipitation that consists of balls or lumps of ice. Hail is created when raindrops are carried into colder regions of a storm cloud and freeze into ice pellets before falling to the ground.
What are small balls of ice?
Small balls of ice are typically referred to as hail. They form within thunderstorms when updrafts carry raindrops into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere where they freeze, creating ice pellets that eventually fall to the ground.
Is hail ice snow or water?
The definition of hail is falling balls or chucks of ice. Some argue that sometimes snow is also layered within the ice.
What is a type of precipitation that rhymes with sail?
Hail is a type of precipitation that forms when strong updrafts in a thunderstorm carry water droplets high into the colder regions of the atmosphere, where they freeze into balls of ice.
How does hail make balls?
Hail forms when strong updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops high enough into the atmosphere where they freeze into ice. As the frozen raindrops are carried up and down within the storm clouds by turbulent winds, they accumulate more layers of ice, eventually forming hailstones. The hailstones grow larger as they cycle through the updrafts and downdrafts until they become heavy enough to fall to the ground.
Why do some balls of hail have layer?
they have layers because their stupid tehehet
Is hail balls of ice?
Yes, hail is a form of solid precipitation that consists of balls or lumps of ice. Hail is created when raindrops are carried into colder regions of a storm cloud and freeze into ice pellets before falling to the ground.
Balls of ice falling from the sky are called?
SLEET
What is Layered lumps or balls of ice that fall from cumulonimbus clouds?
That would be hail. Hail forms when updrafts in a cumulonimbus cloud carry raindrops into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere, causing them to freeze into layered lumps or balls of ice.
What does somebody mean when they say hail like golf balls?
It is hail that is approximately the same size as a golf ball.
What are balls of ice that form in strong air movements?
Hail!
What is lumps or balls of ice that fall from Cumulonimbus clouds?
hail
How do they put the numbers on pool balls?
The pool balls, or billiard balls, are made of multiple layers of material. The numbers and colors are embedded and a part of the material in the last layers.
What are lumps of ice that can be as big as baseballs?
hail!!!!!!hailstones!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are lumps or balls of ice that form in cumulonimbus clouds?
It is called hail.
What is a word that means shouts of welcome and small balls of ice?
hail
What the different between hail and rain?
Hail occurs when frozen raindrops are lifted by updrafts in strong thunderstorms, growing larger as they gather more ice layers before falling to the ground. Rain falls from clouds as liquid water droplets when temperatures are above freezing and condensation occurs. Hail tends to be bigger and causes more damage compared to rain.
