MISSOULA, Mont. — Severe weather season is here. Across western Montana, spring and summer thunderstorms are capable of significantly impacting the area. Damaging straight-line winds in excess of 58 ...

Friday has returned and so has Weather Why’s. This week we are talking about the formation of hail and how big those pellets ...

Or are hurricanes too warm to freeze?" Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: Hard hailstones aren't common in hurricanes, but ice is ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Hail fell in parts of the Tampa Bay area during severe storms Wednesday night. More thunderstorms are expected on Thursday and Friday, bringing the threat of hail and damaging winds ...

You've got hailstones in pretty much every thunderstorm that forms. Air rises quickly into the storm, punching into a colder part of the atmosphere thousands of feet above the surface. Hail formation ...

In high school Earth science, you likely learned that hailstorms form when strong upward winds push water droplets to freezing altitudes, where they solidify and gather additional layers of ice as ...

Qinghong Zhang introduced the WWRP Hi-weather project to participants of the 105th American Meteorological Society annual meeting in New Orleans, in Jan 2025. A team of scientists has cracked open one ...

A team of scientists has cracked open one of meteorology's enduring mysteries—how hailstones grow inside storm clouds—using an innovative approach that analyzes chemical signatures locked in the ice.

A: Hail is caused when raindrops are lifted up into the atmosphere during a thunderstorm and then supercooled by temperatures below freezing, turning them into ice balls, says Dr. Dick Orville of ...