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IGMassive hailstorm in Kankakee, Illinois 🤯
Hail forms inside strong thunderstorms. First, small water droplets are carried high into the cloud by powerful rising air currents called updrafts. In the upper part of the cloud, the temperature is below freezing, so the droplets freeze and become small pieces of ice.
These ice particles are lifted up and down in the cloud by the wind. Each time they pass through areas with supercooled water droplets, more water freezes onto them and they grow larger, forming layers of ice.
Eventually, the hailstones become too heavy for the updrafts to hold them in the cloud. Then they fall to the ground as hail.
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