Snow terminologies?

Question

What is:

1.) Light Snow (Is this constant snow?)
2.)Light snow showers
3.)Light snow shower

Thank you.

Answer 1

Light snow is the snow equivelent of a drizzle

Light snow showers would be intermittent periods of light snow

Light snow shower would be a particular period of light snow

Answer 2

Good question and here is the scientific answer. Snow intensities are based on its reduction of horizontal visibility at the time of observation. Light snow means greater than a 1/2 mile visibility; Moderate, greater than a 1/4 mile but less than or equal to 1/2 mile; Heavy, less than or equal to a 1/4 mile visibility. Showers simply mean intermittent precip usually of a short duration. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Light snow basically means the opposite or heavy snow showers.

Answer 4

don't know if this helps, but:

Snow precipitation
Blizzard
A long-lasting snow storm with intense snowfall and usually high winds. Particularly severe storms can create whiteout conditions where visibility is reduced to less than 1 m.
Flurry
A period of light snow with usually little accumulation with occasional moderate snowfall.
Freezing rain
Rain that freezes on impact with a sufficiently cold surface. This can cover trees in a uniform layer of very clear, shiny ice – a beautiful phenomenon, though excessive accumulation can break tree limbs and utility lines, causing utility failures and possible property damage.
Graupel
Precipitation formed when freezing fog condenses on a snowflake, forming a ball of rime ice. Also known as snow pellets.
Ground blizzard
Occurs when a strong wind drives already fallen snow to create drifts and whiteouts.
Hail
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).
Hailstorm
A storm of hail. If the hail is sufficiently large, it can cause damage to cars or even people.
Lake effect snow
Produced when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the lee shores.
Sleet
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.
Snizzle
A mixture of snow and drizzle. This term was coined by a meteorologist on the Boston television station WBZ-TV [1].
Snow pellets
See graupel.
Snow squall
A brief, very intense snowstorm.
Snow storm
A long storm of relatively heavy snow.
Soft hail
Granules of snow or ice pellets formed when supercooled water accretes on ice crystals or snowflakes.
Thundersnow
A thunderstorm which produces snow as the primary form of precipitation.