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HAILSTONES- A look at size and shape ... HAIL FALL - In the wake of the storm ... HAIL STORMS - Do they look different?
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www.chaseday.com/hail.htm
www.chaseday.com/hail.htm
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Hail develops in most mid-latitude thunderstorms, often melting before reaching the ground. Severe hail is officially defined as being .75 inch or ... On the other hand, extremely severe hailstones, like the ones below and at left, can total cars, ruin roofs, break windows, kill animals and seriously hurt or kill humans.
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www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/hailjim.htm
www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/hailjim.htm
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Hail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hail is a form of solid precipitation which consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, that are individually called hail stones. Hail stones on Earth consist mostly of water ice and measure between...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail
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HAILSTONES are the result of freezing conditions and strong updrafts in cumulonimbus clouds. Updrafts carry water droplets above the freezing line in clouds and allows the water to freeze around a nucleus. As the solid ice passes repeatedly up through the freezing zone in the cloud it gets an additional coating of ice.
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www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/hailstones.ht...
www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/hailstones.htm
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Rain develops when growing cloud droplets become too heavy to remain in the cloud and as a result, fall toward the surface as rain. Rain can also begin as ice crystals that collect As the falling snow passes through the freezing level into warmer air, ... Hail is a large frozen raindrop produced by intense thunderstorms,
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According to NOAA, large hailstones can fall at speeds faster than 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour. They can sometimes contain foreign matter, such as pebbles, leaves, twigs, nuts, and insects.
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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0804_030804_la...
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0804_030804_largesthailstone.html
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A piece of hail is called a "hailstone." Hailstones start out as really tiny balls of ice in a thunderstorm. The winds of a thunderstorm are just like your throwing arm. They throw the hailstone up high into the thunderstorm cloud, just like you threw the magic ball up into the air.
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www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/Atmosphere/precipitation/hai...
www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/Atmosphere/precipitation/hail_formation.html
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Hailstones 'as big as eggs' kill 18; By Di Fang (China Daily); Updated: 2005-04-11 06:10 ... Qianjiang District in Chongqing was the worst affected, with hailstones destroying more than 27,800 houses and local crops. In this district alone, there was damage worth 35 million yuan (US$4.2 million).
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www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/11/content_432923.htm
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Selection of hailstones that fell in Sydney suburb of Paddington on the evening of 14 April 1999 (left). Hail blankets the ground like snow in the New England city of Armidale on 29 September 1996 (right). Some of the Armidale hailstones reached 8 cm in diameter whilst the Sydney hailstones reached at least 9 cm.
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www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/sevwx/hailfact.shtml
www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/sevwx/hailfact.shtml
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