Oct 29, 2011
What’s The Difference Between Sleet and Freezing Rain?
Today Bossy awoke to a wintry mix, which is odd because it isn’t even winter.
Bossy checked her hourly weather forecast and this is what she found: light rain wind followed by rain wind followed by sleet wind showers wind freezing rain snow wind snow shower wind heaven help us.
This got Bossy thinking about the difference between sleet and freezing rain.
According to a reliable source, where reliable source equals the first hit on Google and no lie it could have been written by your great-grandmother the seamstress, sleet is snow that melts in the sky and then refreezes in the form of pellets before hitting the ground:
While freezing rain is snow that melts to rain before hitting the ground which is so cold the rain freezes again upon contact:
Although Bossy would argue the difference between sleet and freezing rain is about seven letters.
Bossy… I grew up in the Caribbean and South Florida, rain was rain….
When I moved to VA in 1999 I was told:
Sleet goes: tick-tick-tick
Freezing rain goes: plop-plop-plop
Enough said….
Sleet: “Smog-flavored Slurpees!”
Freezing Rain: “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
Hail: “Ouch. Shit Ow.”
Frogs & Locusts: “Apocalypse flavored Slurpees!”
Sleet: BAD
Freezing rain: REEEAAALLLY BAD
BSTBXH has hit the nail on the head. In Texas we get a variety of freezing stuff from time to time and because we don’t get it often we pay very strict attention to it. What you found on google is right. Hope you stocked up on milk, bread and tp. All Texans buy out the grocery stores when any weather like yours is forecast.
I have to say…you got a heck of a forecast for wind! Bet it is co-old. Stay warm.
How did you know my grandmother’s a seamstress? Weird.
Bossy is one talented lady! Being a meteorologist is not easy since you only get to be wrong about 75% of the time.
I wish she would move to Ohio and teach the fools here how to drive in this type of weather which would = “STAY HOME because you don’t have a fookin’ clue as to what you are doing!”
What is this “freezing water” you speak of?
I’m sitting in the A/C, wearing a tank top, slurping a fudgsicle.
Snow in October is 27 kinds of wrong.
I agree with Little Miss, I’m also in in the A/C, wearing my tank top Walgreens sundress, slurping on a beer.
Sleet is manageable. Freezing rain sucks rocks. Hope you keep your electricity, Bossy.
Remember the year with the earthquake during the World Series in San Francisco? We had a freak snowstorm in Kentucky around that same time. Also the time of The Perfect Storm, one that the movie was made about. Not sure of the year(want to say 89), but freaky bit of goings on.
WS earthquake and KY snowstorm in October were 1989, Perfect Storm in 1991. In my mind they are the same year.
Er, um er…don’t hate us because it’s 73 degrees where we are….
“Smog-flavored slurpees” – I love this.
Thanks for the explications, as we too are unfamiliar with both terms.
Sleet hurts when it hits you. Freezing rain makes you slide, hit and THEN hurt.
Olivia is SO envious when she reads comments from people who don’t have a clue what any of this stuff is – she thinks *comments* should be closed to these people.
Snow, sleet, freezing rain – sadly these are the words that describe Olivia’s life in *the Great White North*.
I moved south to avoid the sleet/freezing rain and all the other inclement weather!
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