2042. What is hail?
2043. Rain which has passed in its descent through some cold bed of air, and has been frozen into drops of ice.
2044. What is rain?
2045. The vapor of the clouds or air condensed, and precipitated to the earth.
2046. Why are rain-drops sometimes much larger than at other times?
2047. When the rain-cloud is floating near the earth, the drops are larger, because such a cloud is much more dense than one more elevated. The size of the rain-drop is also increased according to the rapidity with which the vapors are condensed.
2048. Why does the Bible say that God "giveth snow like wool"?