Any liquid or solid form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the Earth's surface is known as precipitation. Precipitation can occurs in a variety of forms such as drizzle, hail, rain, sleet or snow. Rain can also begin as ice crystals that collect each other to form large snowflakes. As the falling snow passes through the freezing level into warmer air, the flakes melt and collapse into raindrops. When small ice crystals inside the clouds collide and stick together they form Snowflakes.
Most snowflakes melt on their way to the ground and fall as rain.
But only when the air near the ground is cold enough snowflakes fall as snow. As the snowflakes fall, liquid water freezes onto them forming ice pellets that continue to grow as more and more droplets are accumulated. The word climate is derived from the Greek klima, meaning inclination. The various physical processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infrared radiation, etc interconnect the various components of the climate, its behavior and its properties. Climate is always dynamic, it vary from place to place and from country to country around the world.