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A triangle with a dot, marking ice pellets from a storm.
Also known as: Hailstone symbol, Ice pellet marking
Hail is drawn as a triangle, usually with a shower qualifier, marking solid ice falling from convective cloud. Hail and the smaller soft hail and ice pellets have separate codes, because the size and the way they form are different.
Denotes hail: balls or lumps of ice falling from a convective cloud, usually plotted with the shower qualifier.
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Is coded separately from soft hail and ice pellets, which form differently and are not smaller hail.
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A triangle with a small solid dot at its centre, set above a second solid triangle.