How To Tell If Your Solar System Has Hail Damage
Springtime in Texas is beautiful; full of warm sunny days and oceans of wildflowers. Springtime also brings thunderstorms, and with them, hail. It hails somewhere in Texas every year, with the size of the hailstones ranging from 1/8" up to 6" in diameter or more in extreme weather events. So what causes hail anyway? Well, we're no weather 'experts' but the short version goes something like this: Water vapor gets caught in the updraft/downdraft cycle of a thunderstorm, pushing the vapor high enough in the cloud that (when it eventually collides with some sort of debris or other water vapor) it [...]