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Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow.Unlike ice pellets, which are hard, and freezing rain, which is fluid until striking an object where it fully freezes, this precipitation is soft and translucent, but it contains some traces of ice crystals from partially fused snowflakes, also called ...
Ice pellets (Canadian English [1]) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail"), which is made of frosty white opaque rime , and from a mixture of rain and snow , which is a slushy liquid or semisolid.
Sleet is a regionally variant term for some meteorological phenomena: Ice pellets , pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States) Rain and snow mixed , snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)
If we can’t have snow, we might as well learn what all that other frozen precipitation is.
Snow, sleet, freezing rain, graupel and hail are all types of precipitation. So what is the difference between them?
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The upward motion is called lift. [1] The moisture is collected by the wind from large bodies of water, such as a big lake or the ocean. If temperature is below freezing, 0 °C (32 °F), near the ground and up in the clouds, precipitation will fall as snow, ice, rain and snow mixed (sleet), ice pellets or even graupel (soft hail).