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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)
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
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 ...
Ninety-four million people across the northern U.S. from the Plains to the Great Lakes as well as the Northeast were under winter weather alerts Saturday night, as a fast-moving storm threatened ...
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.
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.
The Big Apple is expected to be hit with 3 to 5 inches of snow over the weekend — or an icy mix of slush and sleet — while under an official winter storm watch, meteorologists said Friday.
After I read this, I asked about 40 people (not all native to where I live) how they would describe sleet and they all described it the way I did. A mixture of rain and snow. Now, I'm not a meteorologist, but I am a computer scientist and I know enough about statistics to state that if the majority of people used the Nation Weather Service's ...