What is the differnce between sleet, hail, and snow?

Question

How are each createdd in the shape and form they are?

Answer 1

Precipitation occurs when water condenses in the atmosphere and becomes visible as a cloud. If it chills, it might fall out of the sky as "precipitate" (that which falls out). If the cold happens in the upper atmosphere with no winds, the rain freezes as a puff ball (snow) and falls. If the cold happens in the lower atmosphere, the rain falls first as rain and then freezes as ice on the way down, making for wet ice (the best way to draw heat out of a body). If the water is in volatile winds, it can form as rain first but then be thrown UP to where it freezes, and falls as a speck of ice. The fun begins when the winds are so volatile that they send the speck of ice up again . . . and again, and again. Each time up, the speck gets more water that freezes again, and it becomes a little bigger. The thing falls out of the storm when it is too heavy for the winds to keep suspended. Thus, the stronger the winds, the bigger the chunks of hail. Revelation 16:21 tells us that after 3 years of no winds on the earth, humans find out where the winds had been hiding when 75 pound hailstones fall out of the sky. Duck.

Answer 2

Sleet - partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow); A thin icy coating that forms when rain or sleet freezes, as on trees or streets. In Britain, rain mixed with snow; in America, ice pellets formed when snowflakes pass through a layer of warm air, thaw, then refreeze on further descent.

Hail - precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents. Consists of many-layered ice balls, ranging from "pea" sized (0.25 in, 6 mm) to "golf ball" sized (1.75 in, 43 mm), to, in rare cases, "softball" sized or greater (­>4.25 in, 108 mm).

Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. Since it is composed of small rough particles it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure.

(A snowflake is an aggregate of ice crystals that forms while falling in and below a cloud. They are typically hexagonally symmetrical. The arms of a snowflake grow independently in an environment that is believed to be rapidly varying in temperature, humidity and other atmospheric conditions.)

Answer 3

Sleet - precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls

Hail - showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 1/5 in. (5 mm) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud

Snow - a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air.