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How can it be warm enough for sandals, yet cold enough to hail at the same time?
Hail is a warm weather phenomena. You get it in the summer, not the winter. What happens is that it's warm at low altitudes, but cold at high ones. Wind turbulence at high altitudes, which is an affect of the temperature differential, has ice crystals circulating up and down and combining with other moisture and growing into ever larger chunks of ice until it becomes hail and is too heavy for the winds to support any longer. Then it falls to the ground. It falls fast enough so that the warmer lower air doesn't melt it before it hits the ground.
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I've never experienced hail in warm weather. I've seen it in above zero temperatures but no more than say +5 C or so. Strange.
I don't know where you live but I've only had it in winter.
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I'd say that would probably...belong in the Funny Pictures Thread.
How is that nepotistic? That word comes from the Italian for 'nephew', indicating that someone only obtained a position through who they knew, rather than whether they were the best person or not.
By association. It is not even far away enough to be deemed a synecdoche, it is by all means logical to term it nepotism (while joking), given i mostly posted that cause it is about writers, and i am a writer as well
It happens on relatively warm days in the UK, usually in brief but quite ferocious patches.
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Yeah. I've only ever seen hail in summer.
Sleet happens in winter, though.
I suppose sleet could be mistaken for hail.
Sleet happens in winter, though.
I suppose sleet could be mistaken for hail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail
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That's enough about hail.
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