Hail is made during thunderstorms with heavy rain and lots of wind. It begins with a cloud that is full of water droplets. These droplets are pushed up higher in the cloud by strong updrafts (wind that is pushing upwards). They get so high that the temperature is below freezing and they turn from water into ice. The ice then gets too heavy for the cloud, so it falls down to the ground as hail.
Many scientists believe that super-sized hail stones are formed when the updrafts are able to push falling hail back up into the freezing part of the cloud, where they can grow bigger and BIGGER. Sometimes they become bigger than golf balls. There was a hail storm in Melbourne like this a few years ago. It was pretty scary!
Blaire is right, the wind pushes the water up till it freezes. Some hail are so big, it is scary to think how strong the wind must be to keep the hail going in circles up in the clouds.
Hi littlemush and moshimonsters09,
Hail is made during thunderstorms with heavy rain and lots of wind. It begins with a cloud that is full of water droplets. These droplets are pushed up higher in the cloud by strong updrafts (wind that is pushing upwards). They get so high that the temperature is below freezing and they turn from water into ice. The ice then gets too heavy for the cloud, so it falls down to the ground as hail.
Many scientists believe that super-sized hail stones are formed when the updrafts are able to push falling hail back up into the freezing part of the cloud, where they can grow bigger and BIGGER. Sometimes they become bigger than golf balls. There was a hail storm in Melbourne like this a few years ago. It was pretty scary!
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Blaire is right, the wind pushes the water up till it freezes. Some hail are so big, it is scary to think how strong the wind must be to keep the hail going in circles up in the clouds.
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