Precipitation types the preceding adjective "freezing", becoming known as freezing rain or freezing drizzle. Frozen forms of precipitation include snow, ice needles, sleet, hail, and graupel. Their respective intensities are classified either by rate of fall, or by visibility restriction. Precipitation falls in many forms, or phases. They can be subdivided into: The parenthesized letters are the METAR codes for each phenomenon. Precipitation occurs when local air becomes saturated with water vapor, and can no longer maintain the level of water vapor in gaseous form. This occurs when less dense moist air cools, usually when an airmass rises through the atmosphere. However,
Rain and Snow and was recorded by Bill Monroe and also by the Del McCoury Band. Other performers who have recorded the song include Peter Rowan with Tony Rice (on the "Quartet" album), Sam Amidon, Pentangle, Rose Laughlin, Betsy Rutherford and the Be Good Tanyas. Rain and Snow Rain and Snow, also known as Cold Rain and Snow (Roud 3634), is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad. The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians", which relates that it was collected from Mrs. Tom Rice