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hail
- Sinônimos
- graupel
- small hail
- Definição1
- Precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice, always produced by convective clouds, nearly always cumulonimbus.
- Fonte1
- AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. Glossary of meteorology. [S.l., última modificação 05 oct. 2015]. Disponível em: < http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Main_Page >. Acesso em: 19 out. 2021.
- Definição2
- Precipitation of ice particles (hailstones) with a diameter generally between 5 and 50 mm, hard and partly transparent, that fall separately or frozen together into irregular lumps. Hail falls from cumulonimbus clouds and occurs as showers.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual of runway visual range observing and reporting practices. 3. ed. Montreal, 2005. (Doc. 9328)
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Air traffic management. 15th ed. Montreal, 2007. (Doc. 4444- ATM/ 501)
- Nota adicional1
- In aviation weather observations, hail is encoded A.
- Contexto
- Significant meteorological conditions in this context include the occurrence or expected occurrence of cumulonimbus or thunderstorm, moderate or severe turbulence, wind shear, hail, moderate or severe icing, severe squall line, freezing precipitation, severe mountain waves, sandstorm, dust storm, blowing snow, tornado or waterspout in the take-off and climb-out area.
- Subárea1
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Português
- granizo
- Imagem
A large hailstone, about 6 cm (2.36 in) in diameter.
