Splat or plop?!
The term nimbus when connected with a cloud means that rain is coming from that cloud and it is hitting the ground. Cumulonimbus are the standard storm clouds.
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.
Rain that does not hit the ground is called virga.
Rain does not usually fall on the ground in a rainforest because the ground is covered with plants and fungus unless the ground is bare because of slash-and-burn cultivation. In that case, the rain falls on the ground and washes minerals downstream.
The water hitting the ground.
Splat or plop?!
Rain hitting the ground
Snow, sleet or hail,
Gravity and your parachute..... and the pull.... :)
Rain hitting down hard on the ground makes rivers form.
Johanna's district partner.
The term nimbus when connected with a cloud means that rain is coming from that cloud and it is hitting the ground. Cumulonimbus are the standard storm clouds.
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.
... of about 61 feet.
A solid object hitting the ground with the force of a meteor would leave a crater, a depression in the ground with a raised edge at the surface, similar to Meteor Crater in Arizona.
Hitting the Ground was created on 2002-08-13.