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According to Nolan Doesken, assistant climatologist for the state of Colorado and author of "The Snow Booklet", a snow flake can fall anywhere from 9 miles-per-hour to 1.5 miles-per-hour.
"The really rimed crystals can buzz right along like a blur," he says. "A nice little stellar crystal, the favorite magical snowflake with the arms that everybody draws, will float down more gently," at a mere 1.5 mph.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoWell, Rain can fall from 5 to 18 miles per hour, so sleet should be something like that.
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What are ice crystals that fall from the sky called?
'Sleet' or 'hail'.
Most water that falls back to earth goes to.?
depends how cold the climate and temperature of the region. Generally it will fall as rain, but at temperatures close to freezing will fall as sleet, and freezing or below..snow.
What are 4 examples for precipitation?
hail,rain,and snow
What is pricepitation?
Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What are all the types of precipitation?
Rain(drops of water that fall from a cloud and have a diameter of at least 0.5 millimeter) and snow (precipitation in the form of ice crystals or, more often, aggregates of ice crystals). Other forms include sleet (falling small particles of ice that are clear to translucent), glaze (formed when supercooled raindrops turn to ice on colliding with solid objects), hail (hard, rounded pellets or irregular lumps of ice produced in large cumulonimbus clouds), and rime (a deposit of ice crystals formed by the freezing of supercooled fog or cloud droplets on objects whose surface temperature is below freezing).
How can sleet form?
Sleet can form when raindrops freeze into tiny particles of ice as they fall through the air.
Pellets of ice that fall to the ground are called?
sleet
How can presipitation fall as?
Precipitation is;- Rain Sleet Snow Hail
If the temperature is below freezing does rain fall?
It becomes sleet...
What are Frozen drops of rain that fall as pellets of ice and water?
This is frozen rain, which can be part of an ice storm. (Sleet is rain that freezes into ice pellets as it falls.)
What type of precipitation would most likely to fall at 0C?
sleet
What factors determina whether precipatation will fall as freezing rain or sleet?
DETERMINE
What is it called when water droplets fall to the ground as rain snow sleet or hail?
percipitation
What kind of cloud does sleet fall from?
There are several types, including nimbostratus and different types of cumulus.
What kind of precipitation falls in the desert?
Rain, hail, snow and sleet can fall in most deserts.
What is water drops that fall when the temperature is below freezing and become solid?
The usual term is "sleet".
Is sleet and hail the same?
Sleet is heavier and worst then hail. Yes, and No! They are both frozen rain and they are both unpleasant. The main differences are the times of year they fall and the weather conditions that produce them.
