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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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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.
What are Frozen drops of rain that fall as pellets of ice and water?
Frozen drops of rain that fall as pellets of ice and water are called sleet. Sleet is formed when snowflakes partially melt as they fall through a warm layer of air, then refreeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground.
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 does the sentence the heavy droplets fall to the earth as rain or snow or sleet?
The sentence describes how precipitation occurs, in the form of rain, snow, or sleet, when heavy droplets fall from clouds to the Earth.
What factors determina whether precipatation will fall as freezing rain or sleet?
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What is the name for raindrops that freeze as they fall through the air?
The name for raindrops that freeze as they fall through the air is sleet.
What are five ways precipitation can fall to earth?
The five ways precipitation can fall to earth are rain, snow, sleet, hail, and drizzle.
How fast does angel falls fall?
very fast how fast can u fall
What is water drops that fall when the temperature is below freezing and become solid?
The usual term is "sleet".
What kind of precipitation falls in the desert?
Rain, hail, snow and sleet can fall in most deserts.
