Climate Blog: Hail

Hail is one form of solid precipitation. It is made of irregular clumps of ice, and are in between .2-5.9 Inches in diameter. Some methods to predict hail storms are weather satellites and radar imagery. The bigger the hail, the more likely it is to be faster when it is coming to the ground. Anything like rain or snow, or anything in the Earths atmosphere that it passes through, can slow hail down. (1)

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Hail is more common within Mountain ranges. Some places where Hail is seen the most are, northern India, China, Central Europe, Southern Germany, Western Germany, Northern France, and East France. In North America, hail storms are seen where Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado meet, this place is called "Hail Alley". Hail is less common in the tropics. (1)

Hail can cause tons of damage to anything that it may strike, including Cars, houses, sky lights, windshields, windows, and anything else that is in the way of the hail. (1)

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Severe thunderstorms that contain hail can have slightly green color in the cloud. (1)

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Hail is a "precipitation in the form of irregular balls of pellets of ice with a diameter of 5mm or more" (3)


Hail causes $1 billion in property damages each year. (4)

Most hail is 2 inches or smaller in diameter, but there are records of hail being much larger, 7 inches in diameter being  the largest, and 1.67 lbs being the heaviest records in history. (4)

Bibliography

1.)Wikipedia
2.)hail cover
3.)dictionary
4.)NOAA

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