How do baseball sized hails stay supported in culumonimbus clouds long enough to form that mass before they fall in hailstorms?

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How do baseball sized hails stay supported in culumonimbus clouds long enough to form that mass before they fall in hailstorms?

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Well, they don’t, that is why they fall.
Updrafts can regularly be 120km/h in a strong sgoem which can lift a 10cm hailstone, and it’s not just a ciuple hundred of feet, but several thousand metres until it’s too heavy for the updraft.

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