Hail forms in storm clouds when supercooled water droplets freeze on contact with condensation nuclei, such as dust or dirt. The storm's updraft blows the hailstones to the upper part of the cloud. The updraft dissipates and the hailstones fall down, back into the updraft, and are lifted up again. The hailstone gains an ice layer and grows increasingly larger with each ascent. Once a hailstone becomes too heavy to be supported by the storm's updraft, it falls from the cloud. In large hailstones, latent heat released by further freezing may melt the outer shell of the hailstone. The hailstone then may undergo 'wet growth', where the liquid outer shell collects other smaller hailstones.
Because the updraft in a nimbostratus cloud or thunderstorm cloud send water molecules up into the colder part of the cloud causing the water to freeze. This process can happen numerous times to make the hail bigger before it falls out of the cloud.
Ice pellets add layers of ice as they are carried up and down in a cumulonimbus cloud.
It falls when the hail or hailstones get to heavy and fall down from the cloud all the way to the ground
Because there is lots of ice in the air
The Midwest and southern states have the most hailstorms, but they can occur wherever there is enough uplift in the storm cell to allow for water to freeze and fall as hail.
Hailstorms form when water evaporates and travels high into the atmosphere. Ice crystals are formed, which eventually become large enough to fall back to Earth.
Hail is found anywhere thunderstorms occur, especially severe storms. This would be most places in the mid-latitudes, especially continental locations. The tropics have lots of thunderstorms but not as many generate hail. Some of the most frequent hail occurs in mountainous areas due to the orographic lift that allows updrafts to become stronger. It is very common and hail can be quite large in northern India and parts of China. Hailstorms can also occur frequently across much of Europe.
Hail is made out of water, and floods are water!
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Hailstorms can occur anywhere, with the right conditions.
Hailstorms can happen almost anywhere in the world. However, they are most likely to occur in the central plains and also the southern states.
occur means something that people can predict and will happen
The Midwest and southern states have the most hailstorms, but they can occur wherever there is enough uplift in the storm cell to allow for water to freeze and fall as hail.
often like 300 years later or 1,000,000 years later...my science teacher told me this.
Hailstorms form when water evaporates and travels high into the atmosphere. Ice crystals are formed, which eventually become large enough to fall back to Earth.
Hailstorms are a variety of thunderstorms. Thunderstorms get their energy from latent heat stored in water vapor.
global warming
Hailstorms have layers because it makes the hail get bigger. That way it can be more powerful and big when it falls down to the Earth.
Lzzy Hale
Yes, hailstorms can be fatal.
Hail is found anywhere thunderstorms occur, especially severe storms. This would be most places in the mid-latitudes, especially continental locations. The tropics have lots of thunderstorms but not as many generate hail. Some of the most frequent hail occurs in mountainous areas due to the orographic lift that allows updrafts to become stronger. It is very common and hail can be quite large in northern India and parts of China. Hailstorms can also occur frequently across much of Europe.