what is precipitation
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Examples - ice, snow, sleet, snow
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Q . What is Precipitation?
=> Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. It is the primary connection in the water cycle that provides for the delivery of atmospheric water to the Earth. Most precipitation falls as rain.
- It is a chemical reaction in which you mix two solutions of two ionic substances and a solid ionic substance (a precipitate) forms.
Types of Precipitation
Precipitation plays a major part in the water cycle as it is the one which brings in the deposit of freshwater on the planet. It can be divided into three categories depending upon the form such as:
- Liquid water
- Ice
- Liquid water freezing when comes in contact with the surface.
Examples of Precipitation
Depending on the forms we could witness precipitation in various forms:
1 . In Liquid Form precipitation occurs in:
- Drizzle
- Rain
2 . When the above comes in contact with the air mass in subfreezing temperature it becomes
- Freezing Rain
- Freezing Drizzle
3 . The frozen forms of precipitated water include:
- Snow
- Ice Needles
- Hail
- Graupel
- Sleet
Classification of Precipitation
Precipitation of water vapour can be classified into different things and have different methods of formation and few of them are :
- Raindrop
- Snowflakes
- Hail
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