Snow is pretty simple.

Basically, the temperature at all levels of the atmosphere are below 32 degrees.

When it lands, you have the beautiful white stuff.

Where it gets tricky is when you have freezing rain or sleep.

And to understand this, you have to go high into the atmosphere.

Both sleet and freezing rain Start is a snowflake high in the atmosphere.

As it makes its descent, they both melt into a raindrop as it's entering the lower levels of the atmosphere.

Sleep will re freeze into basically an ice pellet.

At this point, freezing rain is still just a raindrop.

The differences as it gets closer to the surface.

It makes contact sleep.

You will be able to hear.

It bounces off of everything because it's that little ice pellet.

Freezing rain, though, will freeze on contact, making an icy glaze over everything.

The roads, the bridges, your car, even the power lines making freezing rain one of the most dangerous types of winter precept.

But if you're gonna have winter precipitation, snow is what everyone hopes for, especially if you're at a place like this.