How Does The process behind hail formation Work?

Hail forms when water droplets inside clouds get chilly and start bouncing around like marbles in a game.

Imagine you're playing with a ball in a big room full of kids. Every time the ball hits the ground, it gets pushed back up by another kid, and then it falls again. That’s kind of what happens to water droplets inside clouds.

Inside a cloud, water droplets are lifted high up where it's really cold. When they go up, they freeze into ice pellets. Then they fall back down, and the cycle starts again, going up, freezing more, falling down. Each time, they collect more layers of ice, like adding another layer to a cookie.

This goes on for a while, until the hailstone is big enough that it can't be pushed back up anymore. Then it falls all the way to the ground, and poof! You get hail on your driveway or in your garden.