Precipitation Vocab

have a lot of moisture, drops of all sizes, strong updrafts and makes hail

• mixed cloud

• cumulonimbus cloud

• Ice crystal process

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

ice colliding with supercooled droplets to form snow pellets

• accretion

• aggregation

• sleet

start as snow, pass through warm layer and then refreezes

• hail

• sleet

• freezing rain

Forms in spring in summer in cumulonimbus clouds (solid)

• sleet

• hail

• freezing rain

rain that leaves a cloud base and evaporates before the surface

• hail

• freezing rain

• virga

• mist

cloud that contains both water and ice crystals

• mixed cloud

• cumulonimbus cloud

• virga

some water droplets are existing at temp below freezing they are: super cooled

• Ice crystal process (Bergeron)

• Virga

• Sleet

• accretion

liquid droplets .5-5mm

• drizzle

• rain

• mist

• virga

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

liquid droplets smaller than .5mm

• drizzle

• rain

• snow

• snow

Two processes that form raindrops

• collision and coalescence process

• bergeron process

• accretion

• aggregation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5