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A Little Cloudy
Just Dew It
Drop It Like It's Rain
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It's Just A Phase
100
Low, flat and layered clouds below 2000 m
What are stratus clouds?
100
Water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
100
The only liquid form of precipitation, sometimes it's barely "drizzled on".
What is rain?
100
These little "particular" things are at the center of condensation when clouds form.
What are condensation or cloud nuclei
100
This phase is a medium energy state, and molecules can still "roll over each other".
What is a liquid?
200
Basically, just a stratus cloud on the ground.
What is fog?
200
The level of humidity expressed as a percentage of saturation
What is relative humidity?
200
Formed by updrafts and downdrafts, it is layered like an onion. And can sometimes break stuff.
What is hail?
200
Condensation releases this.
What is heat?
200
In order for water to condense, you need one of these.
What is a surface or condensation nucleus?
300
All middle level clouds will have this prefix.
What is alto-?
300
If air falls below this temperature things will start to get moist
What is the dew point?
300
Unique precipitation type that can start as ice, fall, then melt into rain, then freeze again before hitting the ground.
What is sleet?
300
This kind of energy , stored between molecules, is "hidden" and only released during a phase change.
What is latent heat?
300
Dew is water that was originally in this phase. But then things got cold.
What is vapor?
400
Puffy and wispy clouds way up high
What is cirrocumulus?
400
If the dew point falls below freezing you will get this "deposited" on your window.
What is frost?
400
Little droplets coming together to make big droplets.
What is coalescence?
400
Without any surfaces to phase change on, water will do this. And just sit there waiting.
What is supercool?
400
When things are cold enough and dry enough, water vapor goes directly to solid phase. No liquid needed.
What is deposition.
500
These clouds might signal instability in the upper troposphere or a chance for storms.
What is altocumulus
500
This is a process of rising, expanding and dropping some heat. Can make a cloud form.
What is adiabatic cooling?
500
Another name for the supercool process that forms precipitation.
What is the ice-crystal process?
500
When the ground and the rain are very cold, the rain hits and freezes, forming this stuff.
What is glaze ice?
500
When condensation and evaporation are in equilibrium.
What is dew point?