How well do you know the different types of snowfall?

WASHINGTON — Pop quiz: Do you know the difference between a blizzard, a snow squall and a flurry?

Yeah, we were confused too.

So we asked Storm Team 4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer to lay it all out for us.

“A flurry is just when you see some snow coming down but it’s one flake here, one flake there,” he says.

“A snow shower … and it could be a light snow shower or it could be a heavy snow shower … but it comes down and you can definitely see that there’s a trend for snow falling from the air. It’s not one snowflake here, one snowflake there, it’s snowflakes everywhere.”

What about a snow squall?

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