Precipitation - is an important link in the water cycle on Earth.They are precipitated from the air or fall out of the clouds.Comprises water in different states (solid or liquid).
By the nature of loss are divided into three types - drizzling, Widespread and heavy.
In the first case, appear as precipitation in the negative and positive temperatures.These may be small water droplets, like floating in the air, or white solids (up to 2 mm in diameter), so-called "corn snow".Fall in a small area, no more than half an hour continued.
heavy precipitation are formed under the influence of a warm front.They are always long-term (up to two days), uniform, begin and end gradually, significant changes in the intensity of precipitation was observed.
With the predominance of cold fronts can be observed heavy rains.They start suddenly and unexpectedly come to an end, also dramatically change the intensity of the vibrations.They can last from several minutes to 2 hours.One of them is a species of snow showers.
General
Snow Showers - is abundant solid precipitates, which fall out of cumulonimbus (dense) cloud, mainly in the cold season.Lasts usually not too long, up to 1-2 hours (usually up to half an hour).Pretty quickly evaporates, because it has a low density.
the question: "Snow Showers: what it is and how it is formed?" Can be answered as follows.The layers of the atmosphere in which the clouds form, have a temperature of -5, -7 degrees, and due to insufficient amount of heat near the ground (so that was a heavy rain) and there is a natural phenomenon.
Snowflakes it tends to have a medium or small size.They get together and flakes are falling, quickly forming on the ground a high layer.
happens as a weak snow showers.What is the rainfall and differences?Respond very simple: in this case, the intensity is reduced, and snow flakes appear "dry".It lasts no more than one hour.
Snow Showers - dangerous or not?
This type of precipitation usually results in lower horizontal visibility.If the weather is clear visual overview of the range from 6 to 10 kilometers, during a snow shower it is reduced to 2-4 km, and sometimes up to 100-500 meters, depending on the intensity.In these weather conditions you need to be very careful on the road because the risk of road accidents.
Snow Showers - is one of the most dangerous meteorological phenomena, in which the amount of precipitation up to 20 mm for a period of time up to 12 hours.
It may also be accompanied by strong gusts of wind, making turns in a strong snowstorm.In such cases it is better to refrain from finding outdoors.
Snow Showers - a phenomenon that ends as abruptly as it began.In clear weather it is usually replaced by a bright sun.
Mixed rainfall
To form rain or snow need different temperature conditions.However, sometimes it falls to the ground, and mixed precipitation.One type is the snow and rain showers.Watch it can often fall or spring.
In composition, it is a mixture of water droplets and snowflakes.After contact with the surface of the earth such deposits at zero temperature melt and freeze at minus, forming a layer of ice (ice).
Another type of mixed precipitation is torrential sleet.It is usually isolated as a single weather phenomenon.He falls at zero temperature air and a large snow flakes melt before the contact with the ground.
Freezing rain and snow showers - are the same or not?
These terms, as are the weather patterns are very different, but sometimes they are still confused.Most often this occurs because of the synonyms of the word "rain" from the first name and the word "rain" from the second.To remember that it is not the same, you need to understand what is the freezing rain.
It belongs to the species Widespread rainfall, and there he was at a negative temperature, -15 degrees.It lasts usually quite a long time without changing its intensity.Freezing rain - it's a solid, transparent, white pieces of ice, inside which there is water in a liquid state.
After contact with the ground it causes icy streets as well as wet snow showers.Photos of these natural phenomena can easily be found in this article.
