Can we see hail on radar? We have operated near (sometimes thirty miles or more from downwind side) thunderstorms every spring and summer-in the southern and eastern US. When I was an FO it might have been only once, but can't remember any Captain ever describing what hail looks like on radar, unless it looks like water. Somewhere I read that it has been detected upwind of certain huge thunderstorms.
On a color radar, would it be yellow or red? How does it look with the naked eye, like a mist?
