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During a strong thunderstorm, hard little balls of ice sometimes come clattering down instead of rain and can even dent a car!
Hail forms inside thunderstorms where strong winds toss small ice pellets up and down. Each trip into the freezing upper cloud adds another icy layer, until the pellet gets too heavy for the wind to hold and falls.
Fog is just a cloud sitting near the ground, made of tiny water droplets, no ice involved. Dew is water that collects on grass overnight as air cools — both very different from hail.
The strongest storms grow the biggest hailstones, and some recorded ones have been as large as a softball, big enough to dent cars.
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