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∙ 11y ago'Hail' Watervapour consdenses out as water at a high altitude. It then under goes freezing at an higher altitude, which makes it into ice globules. . At high altitudes air currents can make water droplets go up !!!
As ice globules it falls to the Earth as as hail.
Snow formation is a different process at high altitude.
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∙ 11y agofrezzing rain
Virga
many people think it is freezing rain but really it is sleet! Sleet starts out frozen hits a pocket of warm air starts to melt then it hits a cold pocket of air before it hits the ground. it may repeat this pattern various times before hitting the ground.
Precipitation usually comes before or during the passage of a cold front.
answer:CONDENSATION
The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air many hundreds of feet above the earth, and then freeze upon impact with any surface they encounter.[1]Thus resulting ice cubes
Average humidity on Antarctica is about five percent. Annual precipitation is minimal -- single digit inches -- and most precipitation evaporates or freezes before hitting the ground.
Virga
sleet
many people think it is freezing rain but really it is sleet! Sleet starts out frozen hits a pocket of warm air starts to melt then it hits a cold pocket of air before it hits the ground. it may repeat this pattern various times before hitting the ground.
Sleet is snow that melts in the sky and re-freezes before hitting the ground as ice pellets and Freezing rain is snow that melts into water and doesn't re-freeze before hitting the ground...but the ground temperature is below 32 degrees, so the rain will freeze on contact causing a glaze of ice.
Precipitation usually comes before or during the passage of a cold front.