Is Snow is A Frozen Rain?

Have you ever wonder, what comes out of the sky?

Why does it rain? how hot or cold the air makes a big difference in what kind of weather comes out of the sky. It takes only a little increase in the temperature to make a cloud disappear. The droplets of the water evaporates and can no longer be seen. But if the air gets colder, larger drops are formed. When they become too heavy to float in the air. They fall to eart, just as the drops of water din when they ran down in your glass. This is rain.

Is snow a frozen rain? A snowflakes is either single ice crystal or made up of many crystals. In the center of each flakes, there is a tiny particle usually a speck of dust.

When air high in the sky cools very quickly, the water vapor condenses directly into crystal and you have a snowstorm. It is not true that snow is a frozen rain, snow is water vapor which condenses directly into crystals, the same way ice crystals formed on the can packed with ice and salt.

There is something else which starts in the sky, as one thing and lands on earth as something else. It is hail. Hail starts as rain, but before the drops of water can fall very far, the wind blows them high up in the air where it is colder. They freeze and start to fall again. Over and over they fall and are blown back again.

When you see a hailstorm, pick up a few pieces of hail, and cut them in half. Inside, you can see the layers that were formed as the hail stones fell, collected more moisture and were swept back up into the freezing air again. If you count the layers, you can tell how many strips each hailstones made before it finally fell and you picked it up.

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