HAIL!
Imagine that
you are walking outside one day and all of a sudden, you felt pieces of hard
stones hitting your head! You look up
and become amazed. These hard stones are
falling everywhere from the sky! They
are called hailstones. Hailstones look like balls of ice that can be
big or small. They form in a
thunderstorm cloud as tiny drops of water.
When the wind carries these water droplets upward into very cold areas
of the atmosphere, they freeze into balls of ice or hailstones. Once the
hailstones are formed, very cold air or wind would pull them downward and
upward very quickly. If this continues,
the small balls of ice would become bigger and bigger! It would not have much time to melt and therefore,
you get a severe weather condition called HAIL!
These are big
hailstones. Aren’t they pretty? However… they can grow to the size of a
tennis ball or even bigger!
Hail can be
very dangerous. This picture is a
result of many big and hard hailstones falling onto a car.
