Understanding how hail forms during severe storms

Name: Understanding how hail forms during severe storms
Uploaded: 2026-03-22T12:23:36Z
Duration: 58 s
Description: The hosts explain the scientific process of hail formation, detailing how warm, moist air rises into a storm, creating strong updrafts. Ice forms on raindrops within these updrafts, and hailstones continue to grow until they become too heavy for the updraft winds, then plummet to the ground.

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The hosts explain the scientific process of hail formation, detailing how warm, moist air rises into a storm, creating strong updrafts. Ice forms on raindrops within these updrafts, and hailstones continue to grow until they become too heavy for the updraft winds, then plummet to the ground.