Category: precipitation...

drizzle, rain, snow, snow pellets, ice crystals, and hail
the essential difference between a precipitation particle and cloud particle is size; an average raindrop is equal to 1 million cloud droplets
the growth of the precipitation/particle is through the mechanisms of collision and coalescence
precipitation particles have significant falling speeds and are able to survive the fall from the cloud to the ground
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. (J. Updike)
Rain is the best policeman. (police motto)
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain. (My Fair Lady, AJ Lerner)
I love snow, and all the forms Of the radiant frost; I love waves, and winds and storms, Everything almost Which is Natureâs, and may be Untainted by manâs misery. (PB Shelley)
Each should sweep the snow from before his own door and not worry about the frost on his neighbor's roof. (Chinese proverb)
The frolic architecture of the snow. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
the first known records of rainfall were kept by the ancient Greeks about 500 BC