Month: April 2022

How do hailstorms occur?

Hailstones are formed when rain droplets are carried upwards by a current of air, called an updraft, during thunderstorms. “Hail forms as robust thunderstorms grow taller and taller, lofting moisture up into the atmosphere where it freezes,” explains Jonathan Belles, digital meteorologist at Weather., and com. While reading we ran into the query “What happens …

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