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It starts with evaporation. The water gets evaporated and turns into clouds. Up highg in the sky it is ice pellets. When it rains the ice melts, when it snows, the collect dust particles and stuff...and when it ices, it stays the same.
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What is ice rain?
Ice rain Ice rain is an interesting mixture of three kinds of preticipation snow rain and sleet to form hail.
Do both rain and snow begin as ice crystals?
Snow does, but rain does not have to. Rain can start through two processes, which are called "collision-coalescence" and "the Bergeron process". The former is the one by which rain never begins as ice, and this is most common in the tropics and in higher latitudes during the warm season.
What is the other name of rain or snow?
SNOW OR ICE
When rain or snow falls down what is it called?
Rain, snow, and ice are three forms of precipitation, liquid or ice formed by the condensation of water vapor from the air.
What snow and rain have in common?
Snow and rain are both water. Rain naturally comes down as water and snow is just ice that soon melts turning into water.
Does it rain in the polar ice caps?
Rain on the polar ice caps? Probably not; snow would be more common.
What happens to rain and snow after storm?
The rain frezes after a few minutes, because it would be cold out with the snow. The snow turns into ice because of the cold.
What are two forms of precipitation?
* Rain * Snow * Sleet * Hail * Freezing Rain
How are Snow and Ice made?
They all are made of water. Howewer snow is only frozen rain. Ice is simple frozen water.
Is precipition the same as rain?
Not necessarily. Rain is most certainly precipitation but precipitation can be rain, hail or snow for example. Other recognized forms are ice pellets, snow grains, snow pellets, and drizzle (which is differentiated from rain).
How does snow form into a flake?
At first when it comes out of the cloud it is rain and it turns to ice and then to snow flakes.
What would be the sentence of worse?
Snow is worse than rain. Ice is worse than snow.
