snow

HAIL

We usually see hail in the warmer months when we get thunderstorms.

The updraft in a thunderstorm carries a ball of ice high into a storm where it grows.

Eventually, when too heavy for the updraft to support, it falls to the ground.

SLEET

Sleet is typically seen in the colder months.

As precipitation falls from the cloud, it falls as a snowflake.

On it's trip to the ground that flake travels trough a warm layer which melts it into a raindrop.

Before that drop hits the ground it travels through a deep layer of cold which freezes that drop back into a piece of ice called sleet.

FREEZING RAIN

Now, when that subfreezing layer hugs the ground and is shallow enough so that the drop traveling through doesn't freeze, it will then freeze on all surfaces as it hits the ground creating a sheet of ice.

That is called freezing rain.

Freezing rain is the most dangerous of all the precipitation types.

OK, I guess we just had snow and sleet then. LOL! Although being here, I'm not sure when we'd fall into a "warmer month". bwahahahahaha!

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This morning there was a bit of snow/ice on the ground, etc. I guess it was worse further north. Just had more snow/hail but it's since stopped. Chance of snow showers/rain tomorrow, too.

Another day in paradise......HA!