11-03-2008, 02:15 AM
Hot Wings effing pissed me off! He was mocking Zane because he said clouds couldn't hide hail because hail doesn't form in the clouds - it freezes on the way down. Rain that freezes on the way down is called "freezing rain" - [drop]DEE DEE DEEEEEE![/drop]
As for hail:
"Hail forms in storm clouds when supercooled water droplets freeze on contact with condensation nuclei, such as dust. The storm's updraft blows the hailstones to the upper part of the cloud. The updraft dissipates and the hailstones fall down, back into the updraft, and are lifted up again. The hailstone gains an ice layer and grows increasingly larger with each ascent. Once a hailstone becomes too heavy to be supported by the storm's updraft, it falls out of the cloud."
Hail was a completely plausible guess.
You don't have to know everything, Hot Wings, but if you don't know what you're talking about, then you shouldn't be throwing stones.
I know I'm nerding-out again, but I can't help it.
And Hot Wings, if I didn't like you so much, I wouldn't even care.
As for hail:
"Hail forms in storm clouds when supercooled water droplets freeze on contact with condensation nuclei, such as dust. The storm's updraft blows the hailstones to the upper part of the cloud. The updraft dissipates and the hailstones fall down, back into the updraft, and are lifted up again. The hailstone gains an ice layer and grows increasingly larger with each ascent. Once a hailstone becomes too heavy to be supported by the storm's updraft, it falls out of the cloud."
Hail was a completely plausible guess.
You don't have to know everything, Hot Wings, but if you don't know what you're talking about, then you shouldn't be throwing stones.
I know I'm nerding-out again, but I can't help it.
And Hot Wings, if I didn't like you so much, I wouldn't even care.