Results of a Randomized Hail Suppression Experiment in Northeast Colorado. Part V: Hailstone Embryo Types

Abstract

Hailstones collected within or near the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) target area on 23 days of the randomized seeding experiment were sectioned and classified as to embryo type. No significant correlations were found between embryo type and hail size, hail amount or cloud base temperature, but a suggestive relation between seeding and embryo type does exist. The seeded storms had a substantially greater tendency to produce hail with ?frozen drop? embryos than did non-seeded storms. Two simple tests give probabilities of obtaining the results by chance of 0.13 and 0.22. The result is suggestive enough to be worth investigating in a future experiment.