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Aug 15
Precipitation occurs when water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere become too heavy to remain suspended and fall to the ground. This can happen in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Precipitation typically occurs when there is enough moisture in the air and a change in temperature or pressure causes the water droplets to condense and fall as precipitation.
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Aug 15
Precipitation occurs when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses and falls to the ground. This can happen in several ways:
- Condensation: Water vapor condenses into liquid water when it comes into contact with a cold surface, such as a windowpane or a blade of grass.
- Deposition: Water vapor condenses directly into ice crystals when it comes into contact with a cold surface, such as a snow flake or an ice crystal.
- Coalescence: Water droplets in a cloud collide and merge to form larger droplets. These larger droplets eventually become too heavy to stay suspended in the cloud and fall to the ground as rain.
- Bergeron process: In clouds with both ice crystals and supercooled water droplets, water vapor condenses onto the ice crystals, causing them to grow and fall as snow.
- Condensation: Water vapor condenses into liquid water when it comes into contact with a cold surface, such as a windowpane or a blade of grass.
- Deposition: Water vapor condenses directly into ice crystals when it comes into contact with a cold surface, such as a snow flake or an ice crystal.
- Coalescence: Water droplets in a cloud collide and merge to form larger droplets. These larger droplets eventually become too heavy to stay suspended in the cloud and fall to the ground as rain.
- Bergeron process: In clouds with both ice crystals and supercooled water droplets, water vapor condenses onto the ice crystals, causing them to grow and fall as snow.
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