Snow terms

2. The combination of drifting and blowing snow after falling snow has ended
3. Ice particles fall into drier air, they usually disappear as they change from ice into vapor
5. Most common snowflake form
6. light showers that fall intermittently for short durations
11. Ice crystals joining together
12. snow starts out as_____
15. _______ falling through moist air that is slightly above freezing slowly melt as they descend

1. water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail
4. snow Snow falling from intense cumuliform clouds producing thunder and lightning
7. In winter the freezing level is much ____
8. The level in the altitude which frozen precipitation melts as it descends through the atmosphere
9. level in the altitude at which water freezes
10. When ice crystals and snowflakes fall from high cirrus clouds they are called ____
13. atmospherice water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
14. It is never to _____ to snow