Spring is a great time to give your vehicle a deep clean and get it ready for the warm weather ahead. As you wash and polish the exterior, you may notice some dents or dings that you didn’t notice before. While it can be tempting to put off repairing those minor imperfections, now is actually the best time to get …
Hail Repair in Edmonton: Protecting Your Car from Nature’s Fury
Hail Repair in Edmonton: Protecting Your Car from Nature’s Fury Edmonton is known for its harsh weather conditions, including hail storms. These storms can cause significant damage to vehicles, leaving car owners searching for hail repair services. While hail damage may seem minor at first, it can cause long-term problems if not addressed promptly. In this blog post, we will …
Hail: A Natural Phenomenon Explained
Hail is a type of precipitation that falls from the clouds in the form of ice balls. It occurs when thunderstorms carry water droplets into the upper levels of the atmosphere where temperatures are below freezing. These droplets freeze and become ice particles that then grow as more water vapor condenses on them. Here are some interesting facts about hail: …
Graupel “Soft Hail”
Graupel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁaʊpəl]; Enɡlish: [ˈgɹaʊpəl]), also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of rime. Graupel is distinct from hail, small hail, and ice pellets: the World Meteorological Organization (https://public.wmo.int/en)defines small hail as snow pellets encapsulated by ice, a …
How Does Hail Form?
How Does Hail Form? Hail is large, layered ice particles, often spherical, which are produced by thunderstorms having strong, powerful winds. Hailstorms form within an unusually unstable air mass, that is, an air mass in which the temperature falloff with height is much more significant than usual. During the thunderstorm, powerful winds take raindrops within them. It is colder on …