drizzle
Sign in to savethumb|240px|Drizzle in Norfolk, [[England.]]
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Drizzle is light rain consisting of very small water droplets that fall slowly from the sky. It matters because it's a common weather phenomenon that affects daily activities like visibility while driving and whether people need umbrellas.
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thumb|240px|Drizzle in Norfolk, [[England.]]
Drizzle is a light precipitation which consists of liquid water drops that are smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. Precipitation rates from drizzle are on the order of a millimetre (0.04 in) per day or less at the ground. Owing to the small size of drizzle drops, under many circumstances drizzle largely evaporates before reaching the surface, and so may be undetected by observers on the ground. The METAR code for drizzle is DZ and for freezing drizzle is FZDZ.