Some people think precipitation is just water, but that is not all it is.  Some of the precipitation groups are rain, sleet, snow, and hail.  The weather effects how we dress and sometimes act.

     Precipitation doesn’t rise all by itself you know.  For instance, even mountains can help make precipitation.  It can help by making evaporation occur. 

     Mountains often have snow on the top of them.  The oxygen gradually gets thinner as you go higher, I know from experience.  Although I haven’t been to the top of a mountain, it also gets very cold and that is how the snow begins to fall and stay.

                                                                                                                   Evaporation is the rising of very small molecules of water.  Eventually, the water turns into clouds.

         Precipitation can do lots of damage.  For an example, hail can hurt just about anybody.  It is not a very good idea to stay out in freezing rain or hail.     

        Precipitation turns into ice by staying in a below freezing area for a certain amount of time.  Ice-cycles are a good example.  If you melt ice it will always turn into water.

     Thunderstorms can be very dangerous at times.  Some people can die just because they were struck by lighting.  If thunderstorms are cold enough it can actually turn into hail.   

     Hail is precipitation that is still frozen from when it fell from the sky.  Hail can get as big as a dinner plate.  It is still very cold above the clouds that are why in winter people get snow, sleet or hail.

      Precipitation has a big roll in all of our lives.  For an example weather chooses if we can go outside and play.  Precipitation is what we see all winter and a lot of times in April.

     There is a book called Pink Snow and Other Weird Weather.  You can probably check it out at your local library.  It has many vary interesting facts about precipitation.