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What is rain called that evaporates before it hits the ground?

Rain that evaporates before it hits the ground is called virga. It appears as streaks or wisps of precipitation in the sky but dissipates before reaching the surface due to evaporation.


Does rain evaporate before it reaches the ground in the desert?

In some cases, rain can evaporate before it reaches the ground in deserts due to the dry and arid conditions. This process is known as virga. The rain droplets evaporate in the dry air before they have a chance to reach the ground.


What happens to rain when it hits the ground?

When rain hits the ground, it can either infiltrate into the soil, flow over the ground as surface runoff, or evaporate back into the atmosphere. The fate of the rainwater depends on factors such as the soil type, slope of the ground, and the amount of rainfall.


The thunder comes before the lightning the lightning comes before the clouds The rain dries everything it touches?

This a riddle. It has been given as "My thunder comes before my lightning. My lightning comes before my rain. My rain dries everything it touches. What am I?"One suggestion is a volcano. It's roar comes before it spews out fiery magma, and possibly lightning occurs in the subsequent clouds above the volcano. Then it rains hot ash, which certainly dries everything it touches.


Rain that freezes on the way down is?

This can be either sleet or freezing rain, though both technically start as snow and melt into rain. Sleet is rain that is able to freeze back into ice pellets before reaching the ground. Freezing rain is rain that does not have enough time to freeze into ice before reaching the ground - the cold layer is very shallow to the ground, so it is rain that freezes on contact with cold surfaces.

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What is rain called that evaporates before it hits the ground?

Rain that evaporates before it hits the ground is called virga. It appears as streaks or wisps of precipitation in the sky but dissipates before reaching the surface due to evaporation.


What type of precipitation melts before it hits the ground?

snow/rain


Your thunder comes before the lightning your lightning comes before the clouds your rain dries all the land it touches?

A volcano.


What is the sound rain makes when it hits the ground?

pitter patter


Why do hailstorms form in cumulonimbus clouds?

When the rain falls from the top of the cloud, since Cumulonimbus clouds are big the rain freezes up and turns into a ball of ice before it hits the ground.


When rain hits the soil some of seeps into the ground This is called?

Infiltration


Does rain evaporate before it reaches the ground in the desert?

In some cases, rain can evaporate before it reaches the ground in deserts due to the dry and arid conditions. This process is known as virga. The rain droplets evaporate in the dry air before they have a chance to reach the ground.


What happens to rain when it hits the ground?

When rain hits the ground, it can either infiltrate into the soil, flow over the ground as surface runoff, or evaporate back into the atmosphere. The fate of the rainwater depends on factors such as the soil type, slope of the ground, and the amount of rainfall.


Does rain harden water?

No Rain water is very soft. The harness of water is a result of the mineral content and rain water has a very low mineral content as it hits the ground or water on the ground.


What is boilogical waethering mean?

It's when there's a hot day and the rain boils and converts to gas before it hits the ground....that's where humid days come from


What Type of precipitation that hits as a liquid and then freezes instantly when it hits the ground?

Sleet is the type of precipitation that falls as liquid but then freezes instantly upon impact with the ground. This occurs when rain from a warmer layer of air falls through a colder layer near the ground, causing it to freeze before reaching the surface.


Will there be more erosion when trees are cut down?

Yes as the trees intercept the rain before it hits the ground, without the trees soil erosion occurs and this can cause flooding.