Question

Why does the weather become very cold after a hail storm?

Answer 1

1. The weather becomes very cold after a hail storm because of the high specific latent heat of the fusion of ice.
2. Specific latent heat of fusion of ice is the amount of heat energy that is required to melt $1kg$ ice at $0^{°}C$ to form water at $0^{°}C$.
3. After a hail storm when the ice starts melting, on every unit kilograms of melting of ice it absorbs $33600J$ heat from the surrounding which makes the environment cold.

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The weather becomes very cold after a hail storm because it absorbs heat energy from the surroundings to melt itself making the weather cold.