Form of precipitation consisting of rain and melting snow
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Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow. Unlike ice pellets, which are hard, and freezing rain, which is fluid until striking an object where it fully freezes, this precipitation is soft and translucent, but it contains some traces of ice crystals from partially fused snowflakes, also called slush. In any one location, it usually occurs briefly as a transition phase from rain to snow or vice-versa, but hits the surface before fully transforming. Its METAR code is RASN or SNRA.[1]
snowflakes (United States) Rainandsnowmixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)...
freezing on contact with surfaces. Unlike a mixture of rainandsnow or ice pellets, freezing rain is made entirely of liquid droplets. The raindrops become...
occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixedsnowandrain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental and subarctic climates, these storms are not...
the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The temperate...
common in the Middle East, Australia, and North Africa. Virgae can cause varying weather effects because, as rain is changed from liquid to vapor form...
States when one or more types of winter precipitation—snow, rainandsnowmixed, freezing rain, sleet, graupel, etc.—presenting a hazard, but not expected...
distances from the storm system, as a dark vertical shaft of heavy rain, hail, or snow, generally localized over a relatively small area. This is different...
dirty thunderstorm. Moist convection currents and ice formation also drive the eruption plume dynamics and can trigger volcanic lightning. Unlike ordinary...
Chewandswallow has weather that rains down food instead of actual rain or snow until it got too extreme and made the civilians move to a different town. This was...
the exceptions are onshore winds (blowing onto the shore from the water) and offshore winds (blowing off the shore to the water). Wind direction is usually...
wind, cloud, rain, snow, fog and dust storms. Less common events include natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and ice storms. Almost...
Summer is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight...
or Moon festival, and many others. The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy...
known locally as "blood rain" due to the red sand mixed with the falling rain. Sirocco is commonly perceived as causing unease and an irritable mood in people...
the Himalayas and bursts, bringing rainfall as high as 75 millimetres per hour. In September 2004, 341 millimetres (13.4 in) mm of rain was recorded in...
is influenced by how much rain has fallen before. Scientists predict, some places will see more LCC lightning and less rain, making it easier for wildfires...
("soft hail"), which is made of frosty white opaque rime, and from a mixture of rainandsnow, which is a slushy liquid or semisolid. Ice pellets often...
can produce a snow whirlwind, snow devil, or sometimes referred to as a "snownado", although differential heating is more difficult in snow-covered areas...
Rain Typical sound of rain with thunder Problems playing this file? See media help. Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor...
A snow flurry is a light snowfall that results in little or no snow accumulation. The US National Weather Service defines snow flurries as intermittent...
usually appearing as an accessory cloud to a cumulonimbus. Roll clouds and shelf clouds are the two main types of arcus clouds. They most frequently...
also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes...
within a pre-existing moist airmass , so the rain mainly falls in late afternoon and early evening in savanna and monsoon regions. Much of the total rainfall...
types include the gustnado and the fire whirl. Other lesser whirlwinds include dust devils, as well as steam devils, snow devils, debris devils, leaf...
between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ranges throughout the year and more distinct seasonal...