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What type of precipitation results when it freezes before hitting the ground?
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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.
lenpollock
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∙ 11y agofrezzing rain
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What do you call precipitation that evaporates before hitting the ground?
Virga
Water that freezes on the ground in a storm?
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.
Does precipitation come before or after a cold front?
Precipitation usually comes before or during the passage of a cold front.
What happens before precipitation?
answer:CONDENSATION
What is rain snow or ice falling from clouds?
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
How much precipitation does the Antarctic interior receive?
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.
What do you call precipitation that evaporates before hitting the ground?
Virga
Which type of precipitation is made when falling snow melts and then freezes again before it hits the ground?
sleet
Water that freezes on the ground in a storm?
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.
Compare and contrast sleet and hail?
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.
Does precipitation come before or after a cold front?
Precipitation usually comes before or during the passage of a cold front.
