As more rain falls, the coating becomes thicker. The ice can become so thick and heavy that tree limbs snap and fall across power lines, or the power lines themselves just sag and sag until they snap. Clouds are the key element of the water cycle, since they are the transporters that move water from one place on Earth to another.
The warmer the air, the more water it can hold. The warmer the oceans, the faster water evaporates from them. Surface winds also increase evaporation.
Notice that after a rainstorm, the road dries faster if it is windy. It caused freezing and ice that resulted in dangerous conditions across the United States on January 15, Satellites are important tools for atmospheric scientists and weather forecasters.
This vapour rises, cools, and changes into tiny water droplets, which form clouds. The water droplets in the clouds join together to form bigger drops. When the water droplets get too large and heavy, they fall as rain. Big, heavy droplets falling to the ground are called rain, and small droplets are called drizzle.
Hail is rain that gets caught in the high upper atmosphere winds of a storm and is pushed up to colder air. When it does, it forms into balls of ice that are too heavy to stay in the atmosphere, so they fall to the ground. Hail can be as small as a pea or as large as a grapefruit. It can hail even when it is hot outside because the ice balls are formed so high up in the air. The rain waters the Earth and refills streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans and provides the moisture trees and plants use to make their food.
The water in the oceans is home to millions of sea creatures and the water in the streams, rivers, and lakes is home to fresh-water fish and other water animals.
There is only a partial water cycle: water is delivered to the ground by precipitation while it is retained as clouds in the sky and falls over and through the land. This is one of the reasons why the earth is cold in winter and warm in summer. Water escapes into the atmosphere and land sinks due to evaporation. The dirt, dust, and chemicals in the air pollution travel up into the atmosphere during the process of evaporation.
These tiny particles become part of the clouds, which also makes them part of the rain that falls. The water vapor rises in the atmosphere and there it cools down and forms tiny water droplets through something called condensation. This is when they will fall to the ground as rain, or maybe snow or hail due to the force of gravity.
Once the rain has fallen, a lot of it goes into oceans, rivers , lakes and streams that will all eventually lead to our oceans. Water stays in some places longer than others. A drop of water may spend over 3, years in the ocean before moving on to another part of the water cycle. On average a drop of water spends an average of 8 days in the atmosphere before falling back down to Earth. The highest amount of rainfall ever recorded in one year was 1, inches in Cherrapunji, India.
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