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This study describes unusual winter hailstorm occurring over New Delhi, India. Cold and dry conditions during winter are not conducive for generating a hailstorm, thus making them a rare meteorological occurrence. This study uses numerical simulation to understand the dynamics of a winter-time hailstorm occurrence. The cause of a hailstorm during winter is attributed to low level convective available potential energy and moisture incursion that causes rising of air till the mid-tropospheric level and then further rising takes place due to the western disturbance in the mid-troposphere causing baroclinic instability.
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Chevuturi, A., Dimri, A.P., Gunturu, U.B. (2016). Winter Hailstorm over New Delhi, India. In: Raju, N. (eds) Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18663-4_134
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