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All year round does tundra have hail sleet and snow?
Hail is a feature of thunderstorms, so it is very rare in the tundra. As far as sleet and snow, it depends on the region, since tundra covers a lot of area. Some places can see sleet and snow all year, while others get quite warm in the summer and would not see any frozen precipitation.
What is an example of precipitation in the water cycle?
Precipitation is when water falls from the sky in any form: rain, sleet, snow, hail, etc.
What is the purpose of a precipitation map?
a precipitation map is a type of weather informational map that graphs and shows the amount of precipitation of a state, area, or any other area. The precipitation includes water, snow, hail, sleet.
What is pellets of icy snow?
Ice pellets are also known as graupel, or soft hail. In the world outside the US, sleet is rain and snow mixed, not ice pellets. As a matter of interest, the international weather code for hail is GR (from graupel), although the actual phenomenon (graupel) has the code GS. Graupel is in effect rime ice formed on snowflakes.In the US, raindrops that freeze into pellets of any size while enroute to the ground are designated sleet.
Does Neptune get snow?
No one really knows if Neptune gets any precipitation. We have never observed from the surface of the planet. We have only looked at cloud tops. It would be like if we were on Earth and observed hail, rain, sleet, and snow from the clouds. It wouldn't be the same as if we were on the ground
When hail falls from clouds what is it called?
Any form if water falling from the clouds wether it be rain, sleet, snow or hail is considered precipitation.
What is precippitation mean?
any form of water that falls to the earth's surface rain, snow, sleet, hail
All year round does tundra have hail sleet and snow?
Hail is a feature of thunderstorms, so it is very rare in the tundra. As far as sleet and snow, it depends on the region, since tundra covers a lot of area. Some places can see sleet and snow all year, while others get quite warm in the summer and would not see any frozen precipitation.
What is the name given to the release of condensed matter back to the ground in the form of sleet snow hail or rain?
Rain,snow, sleet are forms of precipitation. Precipitation is any condensed water vapor that falls to the ground.
What is an example of precipitation in the water cycle?
Precipitation is when water falls from the sky in any form: rain, sleet, snow, hail, etc.
What is any form of water such as rain snow sleet or hail that falls from the sky to the ground?
These forms given the general term precipitation.
What does it mean if there is thunder and lightning but no precipitation?
It means that there is thunder and lightning in the sky, but NO PRECIPITATION,so there isn't any rain,hail,sleet,snow,etc.
What is the purpose of a precipitation map?
a precipitation map is a type of weather informational map that graphs and shows the amount of precipitation of a state, area, or any other area. The precipitation includes water, snow, hail, sleet.
What is the definition of precipatation?
1. the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time 2. the process of forming a chemical precipitate 3. the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) Synonyms: downfall 4. the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height 5. an unexpected acceleration or hastening 6. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry
What state of matter liquid or solid is each kind of precipitation?
Rain- liquid hail- solid sleet- liquid snow - solid is there any other types of precipitaiton?
Is snow a form of precipitation?
yes it is precipitation is merely a water gas that has collected into a liquid or solid and fallen back to earth. when you see precipitation think about the side of a cold glass on a hot and humid day
What kind of precipitation does Nebraska have?
Precipitation means anything that falls from the sky (That is, any form of water). That means that this includes, rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail. In Nebraska, all of these forms of precipitation fall, depending on the season (snow/sleet/freezing rain only in the cold season, while hail only falls during conditions warm enough for thunderstorms).
