avoiding Hail

[punkalouver]

I don't have a lot of experience around thunderstorms but I always assumed that if you were upwind you were safer from hail and turbulence. However an article I recently read said that "two of the places most frequently associated with airborne hail encounters are underneath the anvil and on the back side of a large thunderstorm" It goes on to talk about the tilting of supercells with updrafts that are not wholly vertical along with shear eddies firing hailstones from the cloud at intermediate levels..
Has anybody seen or heard of this phenomenon? Also why does wx radar have difficulty picking up something solid like hail?

[Bill Smith]

Try this thread

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48016&highlight=radar