Hail is small balls or lumps of ice that fall from the sky during some storms. These icy stones can be harmless or large enough to damage cars, roofs, and crops.
From Old English “hæg(e)l,” meaning “hail,” related to other Germanic words for icy precipitation. It has long described this particular kind of frozen rain.
Hail is rain that took a violent elevator ride up and down inside a storm cloud, freezing into hard pellets. Each stone is like a tiny record of the storm’s strength, built layer by layer.
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