A chunk of ice the size of grapefruit weighs a lot, I'm wondering how much wind would be needed to keep all of that flitting about in the sky.

I wish there was a way we could see that.

See, if a couple of feet of snow falls, it's easy for me to imagine mist, then flakes being blown about in the sky for miles up, flakes weigh very little. I can even see it in my mind's eye.

But hail, even golfball-sized, seems too heavy to be blown about for a very long time. I can't picture it. Especially since hail is roundish.

If hail was flat, shaped like a frisbee for example, then it being buffeted about would be easy to understand, but a lump wants to come crashing down to the ground. Gravity insists upon it and it's shape keeps it from sailing on drafts.