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Another nice graphic explaining how the frozen stuff happens.
Notice for sleet there's only a narrow layer of warm air above us. So it falls as snow way up high, melts to rain in that warm layer, then has enough time to refreeze into pellets (sleet)
For freezing rain its a thicker warm layer and a freezing surface, not enough time to refreeze the drops so its freezing rain right at the surface
It's incredible how cold it is at 1 pm in some of these locations, only teens and low 20s across much of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Southern Missouri while the northern Panhandle of Texas is only in the low teens.
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