Vertical Temperature Strata

You awake one winter morning to snow falling. When you look out your window at noon, the snow had changed to rain, and later in the afternoon sleet was falling. This later turned to snow. As you are driving home from work, evening rain was freezing on bridges and roadways as glaze. Describe the vertical temperature strata for each type of precipitation and how such a sequence of precipitation might occur.

Precipitation is a case of falling down any form of water from atmosphere, that structures could be raindrop, hailstone, snow, sleet, etc. the phenomena of falling of these formation depends upon the atmospheric temperature and pressure while freezing rain is witnessed in winter weather where the atmospheric temperature is below 0 degree Celsius (Board, & National Research Council, 2007). There are following structures of precipitation and their vertical temperature profile;

Rain- the entire ice particle completely melts when it reaches the surface of the earth.

Freezing rain- shallow layer of cold air lies above warm atmosphere where the temperature is above 0 degree Celsius, and when raindrops come in superficial layer it comes below freezing point

 

Sleet- in this formation, warm layer is very shallow only partially melt as they pass through and they again come below 0 degree Celsius when they come into superficial layer

Snow- entire temperature profile is below 0 degree Celsius

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