Hail and snow form through entirely different meteorological processes dictated by temperature profiles and cloud dynamics. Snow forms high in winter clouds when water vapor directly transforms into delicate ice crystals at sub-freezing temperatures, drifting gently to earth as snowflakes. In contrast, hail forms exclusively inside towering cumulonimbus thunderclouds during warm-season thunderstorms, where violent upward air currents push water droplets high into freezing zones, causing them to accumulate layers of ice before falling heavily.
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