can it rain when it is below 32 degrees?

Answer 1

It sure can, it's raining here and it's 31 degrees

Answer 2

Hail, which is frozen water, can fall ahead of a storm in summer because the temp in the storm cloud was below 32 degrees.
Rain in winter falls from clouds that are above freezing. The clouds are part of a warm mass of air over riding the colder ground air.
Water has to be 32 degrees F to freeze, and will only freeze on the way down if it travels thru really cold air, so if the air is only 31 or 30 degrees the rain may not freeze.
When the rain hits cold objects like trees and telephone lines, then the water forms ice.
Remember, water takes longer to heat up or cool down then air.

Answer 3

Yes it can. It can fall in two forms, sleet, or freezing rain. Sleet is a raindrop that has frozen after it has fallen from the cloud, but before it hits the ground. Freezing rain are raindrops that are liquid when they fall from the cloud, and freeze upon contact with the ground. This can lead to dangerous conditions on roadways, on walkways, power lines, as everything becomes coated with a layer of ice.
Sleet and freezing rain can form when temperatures are actually higher above the surface. These droplets fall through a colder layer of air below, freezing before hitting the ground, in the case of sleet, or freeze after hitting ground, as is the case with freezing rain.
If you want to see how dangerous freezing rain/and or sleet can be, look what happened during the recent ice storm that struck areas of Oklahoma and Texas.

Answer 4

yes, it can rain when the temperature is below 32 degrees. It would be referred to as sleet or freezing rain, depending on the air temperature the rain falls through in the upper atmosphere.

Answer 5

the temperature up in the atmosphere is what counts the most. it can still rain when the ground temperature is below freezing, as long as the atmosphere is above freezing. this would be known as freezing rain, in which after the raindrops hit the ground, it freezes into ice. not only does it make driving conditions extremely dangerous, but can also knock down tree branches and power lines because of the weight of the ice.

it may not be common in states like california, but it sure happens in the midwest.

Answer 6

I presume you mean degrees Fahrenheit. yes it can. The temperature of the air at the surface is not necessarily warmer than the temperature higher up. In any case, although water can freeze at 0°C it doesn't have to and can exist in a liquid state well below freezing. It is called supercooled in that state.

Answer 7

of course it can rain when it's below freezing ouside. It just all depends on the temperature of the atmosphere in the middle and higher altitudes. I've got an inch or so of it still on my tractor from last the episode we had last weekend in Oklahoma.

Answer 8

yes, because it wouldn't rain unless it's over 32 degrees and it doesn't snow unless it's under 32 degrees

Answer 9

Yes, the rain forms higher up at warmer tempuratures, and falls through the colder air, sometimes it freezes on the way down.

Answer 10

Bet your boots, it can....
warmer air above the freeze zone
will allow moisture to remain liquid while falling
but this is usually termed "freezing rain" because very soon after it reaches the ground (if not WHEN) if freezes !!