Snow
What is tiny water droplets that has frozen together.
What is snow is precipitation that forms when water vapor freezes.
Snow falls as ice crystals from clouds when temperatures drop below freezing and there is enough humidity in the air.
Describe hail?
What is hail is a form of precipitation consisting of solid ice that forms inside thunderstorm updrafts.
How fast can rain fall?
What is between 15 and 25 miles per hour depending on the size of the precipitation drop?
A visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
What is fog?
The study of atmosphere and weather
What is meteorology?
Snowflakes are never..
What is the same shape?
About how big is the largest piece of hail every recorded?
What is 8 inches in diameter and fell in Vivian, South Dakota?
Grapefruit-sized hail is not uncommon in severe storms. While basketball-sized hail is incredibly rare, it's not impossible under extreme conditions.
Rain starts out is a cloud as...
What is liquid water or ice?
The type of cloud related to fog.
What is a layer of stratus clouds on or near the ground?
Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.
A flat cloud that produces rain or snow
Stratus clouds that possess a flat and uniform type texture.
It is never too...
What is too cold for snow?
How does hail form?
What is: hail forms when thunderstorm updrafts are strong enough to carry water droplets well above the freezing level. This freezing process forms a hailstone, which can grow as additional water freezes onto it. Eventually, the hailstone becomes too heavy for the updrafts to support it and it falls to the ground.
What shape does a raindrop fall as?
What is small raindrops (radius < 1 millimeter (mm)) are spherical; larger ones assume a shape more like that of a hamburger bun?
Fog is best known to...
What is to decrease visibility?
The molecules of water cling to each other more than they do to the air. This makes them seek to minimize their surface area per unit of volume.
What is coalescence?
How cold does it have to be to snow?
What is 0°C or 32°F?
About how many people are injured by hail a year?
What is on average, twenty four people in the United States are injured each year from hail.
What is rain?
What is liquid precipitation: water falling from the sky?
Raindrops fall to Earth when clouds become saturated, or filled, with water droplets.
How does fog start?
What is fog appears when water vapor (water in its gaseous form) condenses?
The atmospheric temperature (varying according to pressure and humidity) below which water droplets begin to condense and for liquid water.
What is the dewpoint?
The size of the snow flake depends on..
What is the size and shape of the crystals depend mainly on the temperature and the amount of water vapor available as they develop?
What size does hail range from?
What is a pea to larger than a grapefruit?
About how many days does it rain on Mt. Waialeale in Kauai, Hawaii?
What is about 350 days a year?
Where does the moisture for fog come from?
What is a local source of water?
It could come from a local body of water, ground water, even a larger source of water some distance way.
The type of weather that forms on the wind-ward side of mountains, air is forced upward which causes humidity, which creates clouds and rain
What are Orographic clouds?
The type of cloud that forms depends on the air stability and moisture content. Air also rises up a slope due to daytime heating so both orographic and thermal lifting often work together to produce tall, vertically developed Cumulus clouds.