Hail
By Gabe
Hail is small frozen rain drops that fall from the sky or refrozen snow covered in rain. Small hail is really soft in the center. Big hail has layers of hard and soft ice and snow. The hail forms in the clouds where it is really cold and then when it comes down it normally melts when it hits the ground, or sometimes in the air. As it falls though the air, It collects water drops when it comes down to harden it.
Two years ago we were in a hail storm and we all had to go and get in the back closet of the house. We were very scared in the hail storm because there was a lot of banging on the roof and cars. The hail was about three inches around and it was very hard. It looked like it was pouring hail and it made it look like it was snowing when there was so much on the ground. After the storm there were lots of dead plants, some of our trees almost died from it. Three windows got broken on our house and our cars got hurt. Dad had to come home because it was piling up all over the roads.
I learned some interesting facts about hail. The biggest hail stone ever found was in Nebraska. It was eighteen inches around. It was the size of a soccer ball! The longest hail storm was in Texas. It lasted almost two hours and fifteen minutes. That sounds really scary!
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