How Does Hail Explained in 3D! Work?

Hail is like ice balls that ride up and down in the sky on a special weather rollercoaster.

Imagine you're playing with a ball in a big bouncy house, every time it hits the floor, it bounces higher. That's kind of what happens to hail inside a storm cloud. The hail starts as tiny drops of water, and as it goes up, it freezes into little ice balls. Then it falls back down, gets hit by more water droplets, and gets bigger, like getting wrapped in bubble wrap again and again!

In 3D, you can see how hail moves inside a storm cloud from all sides, not just from above. It’s like watching a toy car zoom around in a giant ball pit, you can see it go up, fall down, spin around, and grow bigger as it picks up more layers of ice.

Sometimes, the hail is moving fast and hits other drops on its way up, kind of like when you're running and bump into someone in a crowd. These bumps help make the hail bigger before it finally falls back to Earth.

So next time you see hail bouncing around, imagine it’s playing tag with water droplets inside a giant bouncy house in the sky!