Warm rain: Difference between revisions

From Glossary of Meteorology
imported>Perlwikibot
No edit summary
 
Line 7: Line 7:
   <div class="term">
   <div class="term">
== warm rain ==
== warm rain ==
  </div>


<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Rain formed from a [[cloud]] having temperatures at all levels above 0&#x000b0;C (32&#x000b0;F), and  resulting from the droplet [[coalescence]] process.</div><br/> </div>
<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">[[Rain]] formed from a [[cloud]] composed of only liquid [[hydrometeor|hydrometeors]] (cloud [[droplet|droplets]], [[drizzle]], and [[raindrop|raindrops]]). Warm rain can form in subfreezing [[temperature|temperatures]] (i.e., <0°C). It is distinct from cold rain that forms when [[frozen precipitation]] [[particle|particles]] melt completely before reaching the Earth’s surface.<br/>''See'' [[warm rain process]].</div><br/> </div>
</div>
 
<p>''Term edited 3 December 2021.''</p>


{{TermIndex}}
{{TermIndex}}

Latest revision as of 07:01, 3 December 2021



warm rain

Rain formed from a cloud composed of only liquid hydrometeors (cloud droplets, drizzle, and raindrops). Warm rain can form in subfreezing temperatures (i.e., <0°C). It is distinct from cold rain that forms when frozen precipitation particles melt completely before reaching the Earth’s surface.
See warm rain process.

Term edited 3 December 2021.


Copyright 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS). For permission to reuse any portion of this work, please contact permissions@ametsoc.org. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 U.S. Code § 107) or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S.Copyright Act (17 USC § 108) does not require AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a website or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, require written permission or a license from AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy statement.