How might snow that formed high in a towering cloud produce rain? A. This precipitation actually begins as freezing rain, which freezes into snowflakes before melting into rain when it reaches the warmth of Earth's surface.
B. Once snowflakes descend from the cloud, they become rain, regardless of atmospheric or Earth surface temperatures.
C. When ice crystals become large enough to fall as snowflakes, they melt within the cloud and then fall as raindrops.
D. When ice crystals become large enough to fall as snowflakes, if Earth's current surface temperature is 4℃ or higher, they melt on the way down and become rain.
E. When falling snowflakes accrete too much ice, they break down into liquid water and fall as rain.