HAIL

HAIL
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is referred to as a hail stone. Hail is possible within most thunderstorms as it is produced by cumulonimbi (thunderclouds). Hail is most frequently formed in the interior of continents within the midlatitudes of Earth, with hail generally confined to higher elevations within the tropics.

Hail stones generally fall at higher speeds as they grow in size, though

complicating factors such as melting, friction with air, wind, and

interaction with rain and other hail stones can slow their descent through Earth's atmosphere.

 "The size of the hail was as a Tejocote or a guava, this big," said Mrs. Tomasa Perez Rincon. The pounding on the roof of the houses was as if they were stones, a loud, deafening and lasted, like a hour so of thick, said in an interview one of the 3 000 families affected. Pascuala Sanctuary said that when the hail stopped and took to the streets kept the water running. "Today we left the camp we saw the whole crop flooded, crops failed corn, beans, squash, plums, prickly pears, peaches, hawthorn, apple, chokecherry, everything is lying on the ground" like a carpet, "said Adam Sanchez Hernandez.