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What’s That Falling
from the Sky?
“Clink.” “Plink.” Hail can be as a pea, while others are
loud on a window or roof. It’s as big as a human hand.
not rain. It’s not snow. It’s Small hailstones fall slowly,
little balls of solid ice that at just nine miles per hour
fall from the sky. Hailstones (14.5 km/h), but the heaviest
are a type of precipitation. hailstones can fall at over
They can be clear or cloudy. 100 miles per hour (160 kph).
Some hailstones are as small
Hailstones
can be big or
small.
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