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Surely one of the natural phenomena that astonished you the most as a child, when heavy rains occurred, was that on occasions these could end with the formation of small little balls of icewith the passage of time we discovered that his real name is hail.
What will surely continue to amaze many is the capacity that the hail has to accumulate in large quantities and sizeseven reaching the volume or size of a baseballwhich can be extremely dangerous in case it will hail like this, damaging people and buildings.
But have you ever stopped to think?why is it formed he hail with large sizes? And what depends on whether it reaches the form or the size of a great ball of beaseball,? Today in Heraldo Binario we give you this answer, so keep reading so you can find out.
Why do large pieces of hail the size of a ball form?
To begin with, it should be mentioned that the hail It is a type of precipitation (rain) that is made up mostly of pieces of ice that fall from the sky According to the definition of Civil protectionhe hail originates during electrical storms, when raindrops or the snowflakes formed in the clouds are dragged vertically by turbulent air currents characteristic of storms.
Hailstones grow by the successive collisions of these cold water particles, that is, water that is below its freezing point, but remains in a liquid state. This water remains suspended in the cloud through which it travels.
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Now, regarding the great size that he hail is capable of reaching, this is mainly due to the fact that initially, the hailstones They have diameters that vary between 2 millimeters and 13 centimeters, the largest can be very destructive. Sometimes a set of hailstones they can solidify forming large uniform and heavy masses that reach the size of baseballs.
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