Precipitation can bring chaos! But have you ever wonder how each type of precipitation forms? It is all based on the temperatures across the different layers of the atmosphere; from cloud to surface.

Precipitation can bring chaos! But have you ever wonder how each type of precipitation forms? It is all based on the temperatures across the different layers of the atmosphere; from cloud to surface.

All precipitation begins as water droplets or ice crystals in the clouds. As those droplets fall to the ground, it can travel through air of different temperatures.

Knowledge The formation of different types of winter precipitation Within the atmosphere, there are layers of different air temperatures, which can determine the type of precipitation you'll see.

When there is a very shallow layer of sub-freezing air, the liquid precipitation falls and freezes on contact. This is called freezing rain, which can form that notorious glaze on exposed surfaces.

Snow Most precipitation that forms in wintertime clouds starts out as snow because the top layer of the storm is usually cold enough to create snowflakes. Snowflakes are just collections of ice ...

Like a layer cake, which may have different flavors, the atmosphere can have different temperatures at different heights. This leads to the different types of precipitation that we receive during ...

Snowflakes form as ice in the sky and fall that way all through the atmosphere. Depending on how cold temperatures are, water molecules can line up in a few different ways.

BALTIMORE — Meteorologist Alena Lee previews all of the different types of precipitation there are in the winter. Find out why different types of precipitation fall throughout the winter months.

We’re certainly no strangers to it here in mid-Michigan; all different types of precipitation. Winter can bring out a lot of them, so we want to look at the profile in the atmosphere to see how ...

Freezing rain is one of the most dangerous types of winter precipitation. It begins as liquid rain after falling through a layer of warmer air aloft. However, as the raindrops approach the surface ...