How can hail stay in the air before falling down, and how can it be big sometimes but small others?

Question

How can hail stay in the air before falling down, and how can it be big sometimes but small others?

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

It starts small, and stays in the air because it’s low weight and wind can blow it upwards. But the longer they stay in wet air under the freezing point the bigger they grow until they can’t be kept up anymore and fall down.

How big they can grow depends on the strength of wind mostly, giant hail only occurs in heavy storms that is able to keep such big objects in the air for long enough