Precipitation comes in all forms: rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. Some even count virga, which becomes a gas and evaporates before it reaches us as raindrops.

All precipitation begins high up in the atmosphere, usually beginning as ice crystals in the clouds. The reason precipitation normally forms as ice crystals is that temperatures are much colder ...

Always check solubility of every possible combination.<BR><BR>Even if not thermodynamically favourable, a precipitate will trump any other reaction simply because once the ions combine, they leave ...

So to start off, we talk about our four main precipitation types. They’re going to be rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. How do those types of precipitation form? Well, we start off on the ...

How different types of precipitation form Posted: Jan 5, 2022 / 09:47 AM EST Updated: Jan 5, 2022 / 09:47 AM EST ...

While all forms of winter precipitation start as snow high up in the clouds, there are four primary types that eventually reach the ground: snow, sleet, freezing rain and plain old rain.

When there is a very shallow layer of sub-freezing air, the liquid precipitation falls and freezes on contact. This is called freezing rain, which can form that notorious glaze on exposed surfaces.

Hail forms during thunderstorm updrafts from rain being forced up into very cold air aloft. Graupel: Graupel is another form of frozen precipitation but is quite unique.

Well, graupel is no different. The oddly-named precipitation starts out its journey as snow in the atmosphere, and as it falls, the snowflakes move through a layer of super-cooled liquid droplets.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Some areas of western Massachusetts Saturday got rain, sleet, and some snow and freezing rain. So how do the different types of precipitation form? Well it’s much more ...