Hail

📖 In short

Hail is small balls of ice that fall from the sky in thunderstorms, rattling loudly on windows and cars: tap tap tap! God says: ﴿وينزّل من السماء من جبال فيها من بَرَد﴾

🤩 Did you know?

Hailstones fall at 35 kilometers an hour or faster.
Hail does more damage when the wind is strong.
When it hails, shelter in a house or car.
Hail is different from snow: snow is light crystals, and hail is hard balls of ice.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 Up and down

Inside a huge thundercloud, strong air currents rise and fall. They carry water drops to the very cold top of the cloud, where they freeze, then they fall a little and pick up more water, then rise and freeze again.

🔍 Layers like an onion

Because a hailstone goes up and down many times, layers of ice build up around it. If you cut a big hailstone, you'll see rings like an onion's!

💡 When does it fall?

When a hailstone gets too heavy for the rising air to hold up, it falls fast to the ground. Hail usually falls in spring and summer during thunderstorms.