What explains the freak hailstorm in Mexico? Here's what scientists say. - NBCNewsMACH
when powerful updrafts push raindrops into freezing regions of the atmosphere, where they freeze into icy balls. The hailstones can grow as cold water droplets collide with them and freeze. Once the onion-like hailstones become too heavy to be supported by the rising air currents, they fall to the ground., was notable not for the size of its hailstones but for the quantity, said David Easterling, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.
The hail was accompanied by heavy rain, which washed the hailstones into huge piles in low-lying areas. That explains photos and videos showing cars almost completely buried in icy drifts known as hail glaciers.
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