Which statement about hail is correct?

Hail forms inside strong thunderstorms when updrafts carry water droplets upward into very cold parts of the cloud. The droplets freeze and may be lifted and coated with more water, freezing again each time, before becoming heavy enough to fall to Earth. Therefore, “It may freeze at high elevations many times before falling to the Earth” is correct. Hail is solid precipitation, not liquid rain, and it forms in thunderstorms rather than low stratus clouds.

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