what are the 3 types of precipitation?

Answer 1

I'm in grade 10 but I'm studying Canadian Geography and according to my textbook the 3 types of precipitation that Canada receives are...
- Orographic
"Orographic rainfall occurs when an airstream is forced to rise over a mountain range. The air becomes cooled and precipitation takes place."
- Convectional
"Convectional rainfall, associated with hot climates, is brought about by rising and abrupt cooling of air that has been warmed by the extreme heat of the ground surface. The water vapour carried by the air condenses, producing heavy rain. Convectional rainfall is usually accompanied by a thunderstorm, and it can be intensified over urban areas due to higher temperatures there."
- Frontal
"Frontal rainfall takes place at the boundary, or front, between a mass of warm air from the tropics and a mass of cold air from the poles. The water vapour in the warm air is chilled and condenses to form clouds and rain."

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Answer 2

Types Of Precipitation

Answer 3

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what are the 3 types of precipitation?

Answer 4

Rain, Freezing Rain, Snow, Hail, Virga and Sleet.

Dew is condensation, not precipitation, it doesn't fall it forms
directly on the surface. Virga is precipitation that doesn't fall all the way to the surface of the earth; like fog or mist, or upper cloud precipitation.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_%28meteorology%29
"Precipitation that reaches the surface of the earth can occur in many different forms, including rain, freezing rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, and hail. Virga is precipitation that begins falling to the earth but evaporates before reaching the surface. Precipitation is a major component of the hydrologic cycle, and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the planet."

Answer 5

Different Types Of Rainfall

Answer 6

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/home.rxml

I'm confused. There are more than three. There is rain and hail, snow, sleet, and freezing rain.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/rnhl.rxml rain and hail are liquid and ice precipitation

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/zr/frz.rxml freezing rain is super-cooled droplets of rain that freeze on impact

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/slt.rxml sleet is frozen raindrops that bounce in impact with the ground

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/snow.rxml snow is a aggregate of ice crystals

Especially look at hail. It is not the same thing as sleet. Hail is formed by thunderstorms, where water and snow meet inside a thundercloud. The updraft continually sucks the ice crystals that form when they meet back up into the cloud until they are rather large and are likely to cause damage to things below when they finally become too heavy to be sustained by the winds. Sleet is just pieces of regular rain that is frozen.

My dad was a meteorologist. If you have to choose only three for a class, my guess is you aren't studying meteorology itself but physical science. If you have to choose only three, go with the rain, sleet, snow trio. That will be "correct" as far as your class goes. What you might want to do for extra credit is explain there are really four types.

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Answer 7

Convectional, Orogrophic and Frontal

Answer 8

Rain snow and sleet

Answer 9

Sleet, snow,rain and hail.

Answer 10

Wow! Thankss! I was asking myself the same question the other day