Mae Apr 10, Thats soooooo cool!!! I love wonderopulious!!! Apr 11, Aw thanks, Mae! We are so glad to have you as a Wonder Friend! I don't understand what do they mean by golf ball i thought it suppose to look like a basketball. Dec 3, Sep 7, Laken Walker May 6, I wondered why rain turned to hail. Now I know! From Laken Age 7. Wonderopolis May 6, Felicia Feb 9, This is really interesting. I think I understand what hail is, but when I think of ice falling from the sky, I think of sleet. How do I explain the difference?
Is it just the difference between hot weather and cold weathers? Wonderopolis Feb 10, Wonderopolis Oct 24, Carlene Robinson Jul 17, Wonderopolis Jul 17, Hi Wonderopolis! Today's wonder is very "heavy" with information about hail.
It really doesn't hail very often where I live, but if it does, we are usually inside. I think that tomorrow's wonder is going to be about apples because they are sweet and they could be red or green. Related Wonders for You to Explore Match its definition: precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals. The hailstone nuclei is lifted on the top of the cumulonimbus by the strong updrafts. Once situated on the upper part of the cloud, the hailstone falls down and is lifted again.
Each time the hailstone goes through an area with a lot of supercooled water, it grows in size and increases in weight. Once it becomes too heavy, the hailstone is either ejected from the top of the cloud because of the intertia or falls from the bottom because of gravity. Hail is destructive to cars, crops, greenhouses, etc… But the largest hailstones are dangerous not only for fixed objects but also to human and animal life.
Snowflakes that most of us are used to seeing are not individual snow crystals, but are actually aggregates, or collections, of snow crystals that stick or otherwise attach to each other.
Aggregates can grow to very large sizes compared to individual snow crystals. If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0. Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled.
Sleet are small ice particles that form from the freezing of liquid water drops, such as raindrops. At ground level, sleet is only common during winter storms when snow melts as it falls and the resulting water refreezes into sleet prior to hitting the ground.
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