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PRECIPITATION GELEE [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

Any form of precipitation that reaches the ground in solid form (snow, small hail and/or snow pellets, snow grains, hail, ice pellets, and ice crystals).

CONT

Rain and snow are the main forms of precipitation. There are two forms of liquid precipitation [rain, drizzle], two forms of freezing precipitation [freezing rain, freezing drizzle] and six types of frozen precipitation [snow, snow pellets, ice pellets, snow grains, ice crystal, hail]. Many of these forms of precipitation can be showery (i.e., variable).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

Les principales formes de précipitations sont la pluie et la neige. Il y a deux formes de précipitations liquides [pluie, bruine], deux formes de précipitations verglaçantes [pluie verglaçante, bruine verglaçante] et six types de précipitations solides [neige, neige roulée, granules de glace, neige en grains, cristaux de glace, grêle]. Beaucoup de ces formes de précipitations peuvent tomber en averses (c.-à-d. qu'elles sont variables).

CONT

Les précipitations gelées sont la neige, la neige roulée, la neige en grains, la grêle et les cristaux de glace.

Spanish

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