Clouds and Precipitation

3. Made up of several different layers of ice. Formed when vertical air currents in severe storms force supercooled drops in an updraft to freeze and become too heavy to stay suspended.
6. Rain or drizzle that falls through a warm layer of air and then a below freezing layer of air. Does not become ice until it hits a cold surface.
8. Low level clouds that often cover the sky like a blanket
9. Also known as ice pellets, either snow or rain that has been coated in a layer of ice.
10. The process in which water (in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail) falls from clouds in the sky.
12. The most common type of frozen precipitation. Formed when air temperature inside a cloud is -0. Precipitation that freezes into crystals in the upper layer of the clouds and join with other crystals, dust, and debris from the environment before falling to the earth.
13. Also called fair weather clouds. Look like floating cotton.

1. The process in which liquid water becomes water vapor (gas).
2. Water droplets that are less than 0.5mm in diameter. Drops are so fine they seem to float in the air and will make no splash when they hit a puddle.
4. High level wispy cloud often formed by ice crystals
5. The process in which water vapor (gas) in the air turns into liquid water.
6. Low level clouds that often sit on the ground early in the morning.
7. Clouds associated with severe weather.
11. Drops of water larger than 0.5mm in diameter, can vary from a few drops to several centimeters in minutes.