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| What Causes Precipitation In Warm Clouds? |
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| Clouds that have a temperature warmer than freezing. |
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| Define Collision & Coalescence |
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| When large droplets of water absorb smaller droplets of water. |
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| Define Super Cool Liquid Water |
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| Water below freezing that hasn't frozen. |
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| Clouds that have temperatures below freezing and consists of ice crystals. |
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| Combination of warm cloud above and cold cloud above. |
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| The transition of water vapor to ice. |
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| Ice crystals that form in precipitation by deposition. |
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| -12 Celsius -18 Celsius is the awesome range where what forms? |
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| Joining of two or more ice crystals to form a single larger crystal. |
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| A large ice crystal formed from aggregation. |
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| Supercooled water collides with ice crystals and freeze on contact allowing the ice crystals to grow bigger. |
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Snow Melts In Warm Layer
Refreezes In The Lower And Deeper Cold Layer |
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| How Does Freezing Rain Form? |
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Snow Melts In Warm Layer
Water Freezes On Contact With Sub-Freezing Ground Objects. |
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| Begins As Snow And Remains Frozen |
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| It either starts as warm water or starts as snow and melts. |
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| Define Freezing Precipitation |
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| Supercooled Rain or Drizzle that freezes on contact with a surface. |
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| Freezing Precipitation That Makes Contact With A Surface Leaves Behind A What? |
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| What Is The Difference Between Drizzle & Rain? |
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| One is smaller than the other. |
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| Ice melts into a water droplet with an ice core. |
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| Ice melts into a water droplet. |
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| Low Pressure Area storm moves across the US with particular cold air behind it. |
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| Snowstorm with winds of at least 35 mph and visibility of less than 1/4 of a mile with snow or blowing snow. |
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| How Fast Are The Winds Of A Severe Blizzard? |
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| Define White Out Conditions |
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| Visibility is so bad that you cannot tell the ground from the sky. |
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| What is the minimum wind speed of a blizzard? |
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| What do you need for Lake Effect Snow? |
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| Unfrozen warmer lakes under colder air, causing vertical heat transfer and lifting. |
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| What is more common in late fall through early winter? |
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| What flows over large warm lakes? |
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| Lake Effect Snow behaves similarly to what? |
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| At higher elevations there is an extra up slope due to topography that can cause how much more snow to occur? |
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| Double the amount of snow |
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