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highplainsdem

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22. From Weather.com:

Reply to BidenRocks (Reply #21)

Sat Jan 24, 2026, 09:45 AM

Yesterday

https://weather.com/safety/thunderstorms/news/2020-05-12-15-things-to-know-about-hail

1. Hail is a form of precipitation — like rain or snow — that is made up of solid ice.

2. It is not the same thing as frozen rain.
Frozen rain falls as water but freezes as it gets near the ground.
Hail falls as a solid, known as hailstone.

3. 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.com.

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