Liquid precipitation with drops larger than 500 microns in diameter.
Rain Day
A day on which at least 0.2 mm of rain fell.
Rain - Liquid precipitation in the form of water drops that falls from clouds for several hours.
SHOWER: Liquid precipitation with frequent changes in intensity or sudden stops or starts.
SLEET: A type of frozen precipitation, consisting of small pellets produced by the freezing of raindrops as they fall.
Showers: Solid or liquid precipitation originating from a convective cloud that is different from the intermittent or continuous precipitation from stratified clouds. Showers are characterized by short duration and quick fluctuations of intensity.
HailPrecipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice produced by liquid precipitation, freezing and being coated by layers of ice as it is lifted and cooled in strong updrafts of thunderstorms.
Sheet iceIce formed by the freezing of liquid precipitation or the freezing of melted solid precipitation (see snow depth)Shelf CloudA low, horizontal wedge-shaped arcus cloud, ...
Precipitation Probabilities (PoP): It is defined as the likelihood of occurrence (expressed as a percent) of a measurable amount of liquid precipitation (or the water equivalent of frozen precipitation) during a specified period of time at any ...
The only other form of liquid precipitation, drizzle, is to be distinguished from rain in that drizzle drops are generally less than 0.5 mm in diameter, are very much more numerous, and reduce visibility much more than does light rain.
Glaze is a thin coating of ice that forms when supercooled liquid precipitation, such as freezing rain or drizzle, fall onto exposed objects whose temperature is below or slightly above freezing.
Listed weather types include tornado, waterspout, funnel cloud, thunderstorm and severe storm, liquid precipitation (drizzle, rain, rain showers), freezing precipitation (freezing drizzle, freezing rain), and frozen precipitation (snow, snow pellets, ...
It is defined as the likelihood of occurrence (expressed as a percent) of a measurable amount of liquid precipitation (or the water equivalent of frozen precipitation) during a specified period of time at any given point in the forecast area.
Drizzle and rain are example of liquid precipitation, while freezing drizzle and freezing rain are examples of freezing precipitation.
Solid or frozen precipitation includes ice pellets, hail, snow, snow pellets, snow grains, and ice crystals.
According to the United States National Weather Service's National Digital Forecast Database, The Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (abbreviated QPF) is the expected amount of liquid precipitation (in hundredths of inches) accumulated over a ...
Drizzle A form of liquid precipitation consisting of water droplets less than 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter; falls from low stratus clouds.
Runoff: The movement of water across the earth's surface or just beneath the surface coming from liquid precipitation or the melting of ice/snow.
Hail- precipitation in the form of balls of ice produced by liquid precipitation, freezing and being coated by layers of ice as it is lifted and cooled in strong updrafts of thunderstorms.
Ice formed by the freezing of liquid precipitation or the freezing of melted solid precipitation (see snow depth)
Shelf Cloud ...
FREEZING RAIN (ZR)- Liquid precipitation that freezes after reaching the earth's surface ...
The accumulation may consist of snow, ice formed by freezing precipitation, freezing liquid precipitation, or ice formed by the refreezing of melted snow.
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Freezing rain develops when warm oceanic air rises up and over the cold air, producing liquid precipitation that falls through the cold layer. The falling droplets become supercooled and freeze on impact with the cold surface.
 See also: Precipitation, Surface, Weather, Storm, Cloud
  
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