What is the difference between sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
Hail is a chunk or stone of ice dropped from a thunderstorm. Sleet is frozen rain. Freezing rain is liquid rain that freezes to a surface such as the road or a tree. 4. True or False. It must be 32°F or colder for it to snow. Answer: False. It has been known to snow with temperatures in the mid 40’s. Temperatures are below 32°F up in the clouds where the snow is forming. 5. On the average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow? a. 10 inches b. 1 inch c. 5 inches d. a foot Answer: a. 10 inches of snow melts down to about an inch of liquid rain. 6. Which of the following impacts can Maryland and Virginia expect from a “Great Nor’easter”? a. Heavy snow b. High winds c. Coastal Flooding d. Blizzard e. All of the above f. None of the above Answer: e. Nor’easters cause high winds and flooding along the coast and heavy snow and sometimes blizzard conditions inland over the Greater Metropolitan Washington area. Nor’easters are responsible for the areas’s most hazardous wint
