Sleet Storm

McBride · Feb 11, 2013

I can't believe how many people that live around here don't know the difference between sleet and freezing rain. We are having a very bad sleet storm in my area and everyone is calling it freezing rain.

paul · Feb 11, 2013

If you are getting wet but can't stand up, it's freezing rain.

If you feel a sting as the pellets bounce off you and buildings, its a sleet storm....

Paul

McBride · Feb 11, 2013

That"s the way I see it also.
Now if they called it frozen rain they would be right.

John B. · Feb 11, 2013

There is a difference.

What I hate is how ice has so many different names and that all this different ice shows up only in the winter months. LOL

We have, Slick Ice, Black Ice, maybe there's more names that I've never heard. I suspect if asphalt was red we would have Red Ice too..

McBride · Feb 11, 2013

Yes if the roads were red I would have to say red ice works.

McBride · Feb 11, 2013

John, You said What I hate is how ice has so many different names and that all this different ice shows up only in the winter months. LOL

You forgot about hail {Ice} that you can anytime of the year.

just thinkin · Feb 11, 2013

But if the obiects are flat and sharp and can cut you is it ice,sleet, freezing rain or just precip.?

Adirondack case guy · Feb 11, 2013

Our weather watchers here came up with a new name this past year. "GRAPPLE" The name for those styrofoam looking white nuggets that often fall. We always called it "poor man's fertilizer"
Loren, the Acg.

Goose · Feb 11, 2013

What I hate about winter is those stupid snow snakes.

Never heard of them? They're snakes that hide in snow banks.

Never seen one? Hide pretty good, don't they?

Texasmark1 · Feb 11, 2013

Down here "Black Ice" appears as just that to the motorist on the way to work in the wee hours of the morning. It is most dangerous when the road is basically clear of ice so everyone is in a hurry, especially the person behind you, and think that they can travel at normal speeds.

In comes a row of trees on the S. side of an E-W road and yesterday's precip didn't evaporate due to the shade the tree limbs provided and this morning has refrozen into what is black ice. You can't see it till you are on it and it is nasty....when traveling at normal roadway speeds. If you are cautious knowing that it's out there, you get run over by the folks that sometimes you later pass off in the ditch!

Mark

Roger Tomfohrde · Feb 11, 2013

Actually there was a stretch of highway north of Rochester MN on HWY 63 that was very close to being red for years, they had an experimental mix in the aspalt, so it could happen.

MFPoor · Feb 11, 2013

Either way, it's like being crushed to death by a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers....It's still a ton.

I'd like snow, sleet, even freezing rain a lot more if it happened during 80 degree weather.

McBride · Feb 11, 2013

Just as good as the snow goose eating marshmallows in a snowbank.

Harvey 2 · Feb 11, 2013

Some days our weather people say its going to be partly sunny, tomorrow they say its going to be partly cloudy. What is the differance?
Is it the same as the glass is half full or the glass is half empty?

McBride · Feb 11, 2013

One source says:

Believe it or not, there is a difference. It relates to the average amount of cloud cover expected. Would you believe partly sunny means more cloud cover than partly cloudy? Can be confusing to the public...mostly sunny means more sun than partly cloudy does, while partly sunny means more clouds than partly cloudy does.

Anyway, from least cloud cover to most, the scale is: sunny, mostly sunny, partly cloudy, partly sunny, mostly cloudy, cloudy. Mostly sunny means more sun than clouds, partly sunny means more clouds than sun, and partly cloudy generally means an equal amount of clouds and sun.

Confused Yet!!!

El Toro · Feb 11, 2013

We had a hail storm in 1980 that were the size of baseballs. Did a lot of damage on vehicles and windshields. Hal

rrlund · Feb 11, 2013

I don't remember if it was on here or somewhere else one time,there was an airline pilot who cleared that up. Seems to me in airline technical terms,there is no partly sunny. They assume clear,then add in the cloudiness as partly cloudy,mostly cloudy etc. I'm thinking that's the way it went anyway.

BAnNC · Feb 11, 2013

Black Ice, really gets to me. We used to have ICE. Then the imports started calling it Black Ice. Now we don"t have ice in WNC anymore. Just BLACK ICE. HUH?? :roll

Jo Bird · Feb 11, 2013

Optimist people would say it's half full, pessimistic people would say half empty..LOL.. Jo (eternal optimist )

Texasmark1 · Feb 12, 2013

I think it is ice that is clear due to the conditions when formed. Being clear, there is nothing to reflect the light back at you and with no reflection of your lights, in the dark, you can't see it, hence BLACK. Makes sense to me.

Mark

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