Saturday, February 28, 2015

Hail!

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.


1 comment:

  1. These are some great pictures and descriptions you have added. Here is a link to a website that contains more information on hailstorms
    https://meteorology.knoji.com/all-about-hailstorms-and-how-hail-forms/

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