{"id":17136,"date":"2023-03-09T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=17136"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:51:59","slug":"hailstorm","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/hailstorm","title":{"rendered":"Hailstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hailstorms flattened crops in north Maharashtra region recently, while unseasonal rain delivered a blow to wheat farmers in Madhya Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Hailstorm:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hailstorm is a thunderstorm that produces<\/span><b> ice as precipitation.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Unlike other forms of water ice precipitation, such as graupel (which is made of rime ice), ice pellets (which are smaller and translucent), and snow (which consists of tiny, delicately-crystalline flakes or needles), hailstones usually measure between <\/span><b>5 mm (0.2 in) and 15 cm (6 in)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in diameter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hail is possible within most thunderstorms (as it is <\/span><b>produced by cumulonimbus)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as within 2 nmi (3.7 km) of the parent storm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hail formation requires environments of strong, upward motion of air with the parent thunderstorm (similar to tornadoes) and lowered heights of the freezing level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the mid-latitudes, hail <\/span><b>forms near the interiors of continents,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while, in the tropics, it tends to be confined to high elevations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hailstorms can cause serious damage to <\/span><b>crops and property.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, hailstorms mostly affect the northeast and western Himalayas, with the maximum strikes in March and April.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/mumbai\/maharashtras-nashik-witnesses-unseasonal-rainfall-crops-damaged\/article66587112.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Source: The Hindu\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 Hailstorms flattened crops in north Maharashtra region recently, while unseasonal rain delivered a blow to wheat farmers in Madhya Pradesh.\u00a0 About Hailstorm: A hailstorm is a thunderstorm that produces ice as precipitation. Unlike other forms of water ice precipitation, such as graupel (which is made of rime ice), ice pellets (which are smaller and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/hailstorm\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hailstorm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1380],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/17136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/17136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17136"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=17136"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}