Rain, snow, hail and freezing rain
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Kinds of precipitation
Drizzle (DZ): very small drops, usually from stratus.
Rain (RA) and snow (SN): from deeper cloud such as nimbostratus.
Showers (SH): start and stop suddenly, from cumuliform cloud.
IN THIS LESSON
- Freezing rain
- Continuous or showery
- In a METAR
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