How is hail formed?

Many people have a question, how are the pieces of ice formed when the hail falls from the sky? And if they are so strong in the sky, why don't they collide with the plane?

Clouds are condensed water vapor. The water of the river or the sea turns into water vapor in the heat of the sun. As water vapor is lighter than air, it rises upwards. Then they combine to form clouds. They move from one place to another with the wind. Again this water vapor rises up and loses heat and becomes water. Then these waters fall to the ground as rain. Hail showers occur after very hot weather. Because when the weather is hotter, the distance between the water vapor particles increases. As a result, water vapor becomes lighter. Being lighter than normal, they rise at a much faster speed. This fast-moving vapor becomes clouds and reaches the level of the atmosphere where the temperature is very low.

Thus, when water vapor or clouds enter the extremely cold parts of the atmosphere, the water vapor particles and water particles gradually turn into ice. At some point, these ice pieces fall to the surface with rain. Basically, this is hail. Although the ice is very big in the sky, it melts and becomes smaller as it falls down. As a result, the ice that we see in hail is much smaller in size.

Now whatever the storm rains, it happens in the region between the clouds and the earth's surface. So when a storm starts raining while an airplane is moving, the airplane rises above the clouds. Although there is some influence of rainstorms on the air there, it is less. Therefore, the aircraft does not have to gain much speed to move or take off and land in normal storms or hailstorms.

Written

Jeion Ahmed