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Hail is large frozen raindrops created by strong thunderstorms. Hail
begins as a snowflake. It becomes coated by layers of water.
The strong wind in the thunderstorm blows this ice pellet up and around.
These pellets keep growing larger as more and more droplets of water are
frozen onto them. Upon reaching the bottom of the cloud, some of the ice
pellets are carried up by the wind to the top of the storm.
Once the hail stones becomes too heavy to be supported by the updraft (wind), they fall out of the cloud toward the Earth. The hail stones reach the ground as ice balls. The states in the middle of the United States experience hail storms more often than other parts of our country. This usually happens in the spring and summer. information found on http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/rnhl.rxml |
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