Question

it is winter where Jenna lives. It’s been snowing all day, but now the snow has changed to sleet and then to freezing rain. What is happening to cause these changes? In your answer, explain how snow, sleet, and freezing rain form

Answer 1

The temperature increases.

Step-by-step explanation:

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In this case, a change in the temperature is being observed as long as initially, it is stated that the snow is present as itself but for some reason it becomes sleet and finally freezing rain. Such stepwise change is caused by the slight increase of the temperature which induces the change from the solid frozen water (snow) to freezing liquid water (freezing rain). Thus, since the water molecules receive energy, due to the aforesaid increase in the temperature, they are allowed slightly change from solid to liquid.

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Answer 2

The snow or snowflakes are formed when water vapor, which is present in a cloud transforms directly into the crystals of ice. The formation of sleet takes place when rain droplets fall via a layer of air below the zero degree Celsius, resulting in the droplets to freeze into solid ice as they fall. Freezing rain refers to just the usual droplets of rain, which falls as a liquid but freeze once they land on a cold surface.