Why does it snow and why does it hail??

Answer 1

It will snow when temperatures are at 32F or below and when their is sufficient moisture in the atmosphere. It will hail at many different temperatures when the hail rises then falls, rises with air currents then falls when gravity overcomes the aircurrents.

Answer 2

Snow and Hail are both forms of frozen precipitation. Snow is produced mainly from stratoform type clouds and Hail is always produced by cumuliform clouds mainly cumulonimbus clouds.

The necessary conditions for snow to fall are precipitous clouds and a layer of freezing air thick enough to allow the frozen water droplet to reach the ground or completely freeze a water droplet as it falls through the atmosphere.

Hail is formed by strong updrafts caused by the rising of warm air mixing with the sinking of cold air. As a water droplet falls from the cold air, the warm air lifts it back up and refreezes it in the cold air. This process continues until the updraft can no longer hold up the frozen ice ball. The bigger the hail the stronger the updrafts the more severe the storm. That's why large hail is normally seen with tornadoes.

Answer 3

Why? Because the conditions are right.

Conditions for snow: Cold very cold. High humidity where the humidity is transformed into chritaline structures. That's snow. Actually it snows very often.... usually it is to warm in the lowest parts and it turns into rain .

Hail:always produced by cumulonimbus (thunderclouds). Forms when a spec of dust connects with super-cold water droplets that form clouds. small layers of ice keep forming until it gets to heavy and falls down collecting even more ice. The lower layers can be any temperature. This is the reason why the chance on hail is equal in any season.