How can hailstones grow inside a cloud?

Correct answer: By layers of ice freezing as strong updrafts move them up and down

Correct answer: A. Hail usually develops in a powerful thunderstorm cloud, especially cumulonimbus. Strong updrafts lift a small ice particle or frozen drop into regions containing supercooled water droplets. When these droplets strike the ice and freeze, one layer is added. Repeated lifting and falling through different parts of the cloud allows more layers of ice to accumulate, so the hailstone becomes larger. A is correct because it describes both the strong updraft and repeated freezing. B is wrong because dust is not transformed into hailstones. C is wrong because evaporation removes water rather than building an ice coating. D is wrong because heating near the Sun would not create the required freezing layers. Memory cue: hail grows by repeated “lifts, impacts, and freezes.”