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	Hail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Accordingly, hail is actually less common in the tropics despite a much higher frequency of thunderstorms than in the midlatitudes because the atmosphere over the tropics tends to be warmer over a much greater depth.
		Hail is also much more common in elevated regions (mountains, plateaus, etc..) since those locations are closer to the bottom of thunderstorms, and falling hail has less time to melt before reaching the ground.
		Small hail from a thunderstorm, compared to a U.S. quarter, a coin with a diameter of 24.26 mm, in San Jose, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hail (1008 words)

	Hail Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hail Mary (from the Latin Ave Maria (Salutatio Angelica), is a traditional Catholic and Orthodox prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
		The Hail Mary is the essential element of the Rosary, a prayer method practiced primarily by Catholics, comprised of 4 sets of 5 Mysteries meditating upon the incarnation, life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
		Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hail_Mary (869 words)

	Hail
		Hail is formed in huge cumulonimbus clouds, commonly known as thunderheads.
		Hail grows in the storm cloud's main updraft, where most of the cloud is in the form of "supercooled" water.
		Hail cannons were especially famous in the wine-producing regions of Europe during the 19th century, and modern versions of them are still used in parts of Italy.
	www.ucar.edu /communications/factsheets/Hail.html (861 words)

	Hail - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Hail is a type of graupel (a form of precipitation) composed of spears or irregular lumps of ice.
		Hail often forms in strong thunderstorms, often along a cold front, where the layer of air on top is much colder than that on the bottom.
		For the same reason, larger hail can occur in warmer regions in the world due to stronger updrafts.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/h/a/i/Hail.html (348 words)

	Hail: frozen raindrops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hail is a large frozen raindrop produced by intense thunderstorms, where snow and rain can coexist in the central updraft.
		Once the hail stone becomes too heavy to be supported by the updraft, it falls out of the cloud toward the surface.
		The hail stone reaches the ground as ice since it is not in the warm air below the thunderstorm long enough to melt before reaching the ground.
	ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/wwhlpr/hail_hyd.rxml?hret=/guides/mtr/hyd/prcp.rxml (161 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - WeatherWise - Fact Files - Hail
		Hail is produced inside storm clouds and is made of solid ice.
		Hail occurs when ice pellets falling from the top of the cloud collect a film of moisture as they descend.
		Hail storms can devastate entire fields of crops in a few minutes, flattening and bruising the growing plants.
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/weatherwise/factfiles/extremes/hail.shtml (246 words)

	PSEPC :: Home :: Research :: Emergency management :: Natural Hazards of Canada
		Hail can hit the ground at 130 kilometres per hour and can cause severe damage to crops, houses and vehicles as well as injuries to people and animals.
		Hail occurs in the strong updrafts needed to form thunderstorms which tend occur in warm weather.
		The worst hail storm in Canadian history in terms of paid insurance claims was the Calgary hailstorm of Sept. 7, 1991.
	www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca /res/em/nh/ha/index-en.asp (392 words)

	Weather Elements: Hail Formation
		Hail is the prime warm season species of frozen precipitation, born of severe thunderstorms.
		For the hail embryos to grow, they must remain in a layer of supercooled water for a length of time -- the longer the residency, the larger the hailstone's potential size.
		The updraft is not only the agent producing hail, it is also responsible for pushing cumulonimbus cloud tops high into the troposphere, creating the environment for lightning and its sibling thunder, and the various wind characteristics of the thunderstorm cell.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/elements/hailform.htm (1502 words)

	Hail - Environment Canada
		Hail is formed when updrafts in thunderclouds carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere, where they freeze and merge into lumps of ice.
		While hail may or may not precede a tornado, large hail often appears near the area within a thunderstorm where tornadoes are most likely to form.
		Once large hail starts to fall, it is safer to assume that a tornado could be nearby and to seek appropriate shelter.
	www.mb.ec.gc.ca /air/summersevere/ae00s17.en.html (204 words)

	Hail
		Smaller hail tends to fall in large batches near the heart of a storm.
		Hail's biggest property threat is to automobiles and crops.
		Hail swaths can affect areas up to 10 miles (16 km) wide and 100 miles (160 km) long.
	www.ucar.edu /research/storms/hail.shtml (616 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hail Mary
		The Hail Mary (sometimes called the "Angelical salutation", sometimes, from the first words in its Latin form, the "Ave Maria") is the most familiar of all the prayers used by the Universal Church in honour of our Blessed Lady.
		The first, "Hail (Mary) full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women", embodies the words used by the Angel Gabriel in saluting the Blessed Virgin (Luke, I, 28).
		This concept of the Hail Mary as a form of salutation explains in some measure the practice, which is certainly older than the epoch of St. Dominic, of repeating the greeting as many as 150 times in succession.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07110b.htm (1837 words)

	Hail
		Hail has caused property and agricultural damage across the nation to the tune of almost $1 billion.
		The hail season in Colorado is March through October, with June having the higher frequency of storms producing hail.
		Hail develops when strong rising currents of air within a storm, called updrafts, carry water droplets to a height where freezing occurs.
	www.dola.state.co.us /oem/PublicInformation/HAIL.HTM (118 words)

	Hail
		The city of Hail is situated in the Shammar mountain region, west of the Al-Odairie valley, also known as the Hail valley.
		Hail's cultural center includes a number of halls for artistic exhibitions, a permanent exhibition center and a popular museum in addition to a theater, public library and other halls for meetings and lectures.
		Hail City is the provincial capital and headquarters of the Governor, local councils and branches of governmental departments.
	www.the-saudi.net /saudi-arabia/hail/index.htm (309 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hail forms when strong currents of rising air, known as updrafts, carry water droplets high enough in a thunderstorm for the water droplets to freeze.
		The last known U.S. hail fatality was an infant killed in Fort Collins, Colo., in August 1979.
		While hailstones are ice, hail is mostly a spring and summer phenomena because the strong thunderstorms needed to produce hail are much more common during warm weather.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/tg/whail/whail.htm (305 words)

	JetStream - An Online School for Weather: Thunderstorm Hazards - Hail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hail is precipitation that is formed when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere.
		Hail can damage aircraft, homes and cars, and can be deadly to livestock and people.
		In all cases, the hail falls when the thunderstorm's updraft can no longer support the weight of the ice.
	www.srh.weather.gov /jetstream/mesoscale/hail.htm (354 words)

	Bible Study - Hail
		Hail is precipitation in the form of balls ("ice pellets") or pieces of ice, commonly ranging from ¼ to 4 inches in size (the largest on record in modern times was 5½ inches in diameter and weighed 1½ pounds).
		Hail can be extremely destructive to living creatures and property, whether naturally-occurring, or sent by God.
		And The Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt; there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2001/20011016.htm (669 words)

	AMS Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An individual unit of hail is called a hailstone.
		By convention, hail has a diameter of 5 mm or more, while smaller particles of similar origin, formerly called small hail, may be classed as either ice pellets or snow pellets.
		In aviation weather observations, hail is encoded A.
	amsglossary.allenpress.com /glossary/search?p=1&query=hail (142 words)

	Hail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are three general stages in the develoment of hail: graupel, small hail, and hailstone.
		Hail can occur anywhere in the United Sates, but is most common in South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, western Texas, eastern Colorado, and eastern New Mexico.
		Large hail causes nearly $1,000,000,000 in damage to property and crops in the United States each year.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/2430/hail.html (244 words)

	Illinois Hail
		Hail is a major weather hazard in Illinois, causing damage to crops and property.
		Hail is very difficult to measure because it occurs very locally (requiring a high-density network) and remains in its solid form for only a few minutes before melting.
		Figure 1 shows the spatial pattern of total hail days during a 14 year period from 1981 to 1994.
	www.sws.uiuc.edu /atmos/statecli/Hail/hail.htm (287 words)

	The Saudi Arabian Information Resource - Hail
		In the Shammar Mountains, west of the Hail valley, lies Hail.
		For centuries, Hail was seen as the "key to the desert" because it was the main transit point for pilgrims heading for the Holy Cities of Makkah and Madinah and for traders traveling north or south in the Arabian peninsula.
		When, towards the end of the Abbasid Caliphate, the purity of the Arab language was threatened with dilution by foreign influences, the Muslim scholars of Hail took upon themselves responsibility for protecting and promulgating Arabic in its purest form.
	www.saudinf.com /main/a887.htm (186 words)

	FilePlanet: Hail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HAIL is a free 3D third-person muti-player melee combat game set in Ancient Rome, Egypt and Germania.
		HAIL was developed by the second-year Diploma of Computer Game Development students at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment.
		There are two versions of Hail: a "download edition" with one level and six characters, and a "cd edition" with four levels and eighteen characters.
	www.fileplanet.com /120496/120000/fileinfo/Hail (199 words)

	Definition of Hail from dictionary.net
		Hail Mary, a form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin.
		Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky.
		To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
	www.dictionary.net /hail (202 words)

	Hail Info: HailStorms Prevention, Information and Photo Galleries of Hail Stones and Storms. Weather Encyclopedia
		The Agency Hail Suppression at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MAF) was established on 30 April 1968.
		Our hail suppression agency has broad experience in collecting cloud resource data by region, as well as in carrying out experiments aimed at rainfall stimulation and modification.
		The rainfall measuring (hail impact) network is needed to juxtapose radar data with the actual rainfall amounts.
	www.hailinfo.com /agency.php (494 words)

	Hyload Coal Tar Elastomeric Membrane Holds Up Against Texas Hail
		Artificial hail stones are made in the freezer and shot at samples at a speed that corresponds to the terminal free-fall velocities of similar-sized, naturally occurring hail stones.
		In actual hail events, the vast majority of the stones falling are impacting roof surfaces at an angle less than perpendicular due to the high winds that almost invariably accompany hail storms.
		hail that occurred in 1995 when the roof was 8 years old.
	www.dupont.com /roofing/hyhail.html (1671 words)

	Hail - Housing Association for Integrated Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HAIL is a voluntary housing association with properties in the greater Dublin area.
		This year HAIL is celebrating 21 years of providing supported housing.
		Read about the history of HAIL and our achievements over the last 21 years.
	www.hail.ie (69 words)

	FLASH: Federal Alliance for Safe Home
		Hail is a large frozen raindrop produced by intense thunderstorms, where snow and rain coexist.
		Hail might seem like a minor concern, but it can shatter windows, leave pockmarks in siding and destroy or damage roof coverings.
		Hail causes $1 billion in damage to crops and property each year.
	www.flash.org /activity.cfm?currentPeril=5 (341 words)

	HAILSTONES: IMAGES OF HAILSTONES AND DAMAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The hail fell from a dark cloud base to the south of a developing mesocyclone.
		No rain or thunder occurred in the immediate area while the stones were coming down.Further to the northeast more large stones fell blocking chase crews from the University of Oklahoma from reaching the tornado.
		Deciding not to repair the camera during the rain of "gorilla hail" we make a hasty retreat.
	www.chaseday.com /hailstones.htm (370 words)

	Hail
		Hail tends to occur in warm weather because hot air rising from the ground creates the turbulent updrafts and tall clouds necessary to keep the ice particles aloft for a long enough time to form hail.
		Other strange but true hail facts: The largest hailstone reliably measured fell in Kansas in 1970, weighing in at 1.67 pounds--roughly the size of a grapefruit.
		Hail Alley--a 625-square-mile area located near the meeting of the borders of Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming--receives about nine or ten days of hail each year.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/gen99/gen99107.htm (214 words)

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