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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.
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 ...
Unlike hail or sleet, graupel is soft and can be crushed easily in your hand, and is sometimes called "soft hail." It is also usually smaller than hail, with a diameter of around 0.08-0.2 inches.
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)
Snow, sleet, freezing rain, graupel and hail are all types of precipitation. So what is the difference between them?
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Out here in Oregon sleet is water mixed with ice within the same falling unit. Not mixed rain and snow, we get that too, but sleet is when the solid ice is inside a drop of water, or at least melted on the outside. If it is a completely solid ice pellet it would be called hail.76.105.216.34 07:43, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Recent precipitation in Dallas-Fort Worth has been nearly all sleet, which weather service experts say is “quite rare.” Here’s what to expect next. What’s the difference between freezing ...