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What type of precipitation results when it freezes before hitting the ground?
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∙ 11y ago
'Hail' Watervapour consdenses out as water at a high altitude. It then under goes freezing at an higher altitude, which makes it into ice globules. . At high altitudes air currents can make water droplets go up !!!
As ice globules it falls to the Earth as as hail.
Snow formation is a different process at high altitude.
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∙ 11y agofrezzing rain
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What do you call precipitation that evaporates before hitting the ground?
Virga
Water that freezes on the ground in a storm?
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.
Does precipitation come before or after a cold front?
Precipitation usually comes before or during the passage of a cold front.
What happens before precipitation?
answer:CONDENSATION
What is rain snow or ice falling from clouds?
The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air many hundreds of feet above the earth, and then freeze upon impact with any surface they encounter.[1]Thus resulting ice cubes
How much precipitation does the Antarctic interior receive?
Average humidity on Antarctica is about five percent. Annual precipitation is minimal -- single digit inches -- and most precipitation evaporates or freezes before hitting the ground.
What do you call precipitation that evaporates before hitting the ground?
Virga
Which type of precipitation is made when falling snow melts and then freezes again before it hits the ground?
sleet
Water that freezes on the ground in a storm?
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.
Compare and contrast sleet and hail?
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.
Does precipitation come before or after a cold front?
Precipitation usually comes before or during the passage of a cold front.
Does the precipitation associated with a cold front come before or after the front?
The precipitation generally occurs before the front moves in.
What are frozen water drops?
If they freeze on the way to hitting the earths surface, they are called sleet. You can tell the difference between hail (which freezes before it leaves the cloud) is that sleet bounces when it hits the ground. You are talking about weather, right?
What comes before precipitation in the water cycle?
Condensation comes before precipitation. Water vapors condense to water droplets.
Does precipitation come before or after a warm front?
Not normally before a warm front, precipitation comes before and after a cold front. When you have warm air and a cold front comes through, you mix warm with cold and that brings precipitation.
What happens before precipitation?
answer:CONDENSATION
How are hail and sleet similar and how are they different?
they are similar because they are all precipitation and a form of water. rain is liquid. sleet is liquid that freezes before it hit the ground but then melts when it does hit the ground (like a slushy) and hail is completely frozen into a chunk of ice
