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Why does it hail?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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13y ago

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Hail forms when raindrops freeze while falling. This can happen for many reasons. If the drops move through an area of very dry air, rapid evaporation can cause the drops to freeze.

Extremely turbulent air can cause raindrops to fall, be sucked back upward into freezing air, collide with each other, and fall again as hail. Sometimes this process repeats producing oversized hailstones.

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11y ago

Hails associated with strong thunderstorms, which develop in warm temperatures. Hail forms in the higher portions of these storms where temperatures are below freezing. Ice accumulates in layers as the hailstones grow larger and larger as they are kept aloft by strong, upward moving winds. When they get too heavy they fall to earth. Snow also forms at these levels in a thunderstorm, but snowflakes are much smaller and fall much more slowly than hailstones. So the snow melts long before reaching the ground and ends up as rain.

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Hail is water droplets that have been supercooled and then forced into higher altitudes by high winds. They freeze there and fall as hail before melting back into rain.

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10y ago

because it hates you

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