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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 ...
Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries) Glaze (ice) , a smooth coating of ice formed on objects by freezing rain. People with the surname
Heavy rain describes rainfall with a precipitation rate above 7.6 millimetres (0.30 in) per hour, and violent rain has a rate more than 50 millimetres (2.0 in) per hour. [11] Snowfall intensity is classified in terms of visibility instead. When the visibility is over 1 kilometre (0.62 mi), snow is determined to be light.
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.
The January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard was a significant and expansive winter weather event that produced blizzard conditions across the High Plains, [2] as well as a long swath of accumulating snow and ice storm to the eastern half of the United States in early January 2025.
Rain along the West Coast over Saturday and Sunday will douse northern California, the Pacific Northwest and the northern Intermountain West – and bring some snow at higher elevations, the ...
Graupel (/ ˈ ɡ r aʊ p əl /; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩] ⓘ), also called soft hail or snow pellets, [1] is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of crisp, opaque rime.
High winds also led to power outages for nearly half a million homes and businesses in Washington state, which also grappled with forecasted dangerous rain, flooding and snow in the region.