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  2. Ice pellets - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Rain and snow mixed - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Sleet - Wikipedia

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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)

  5. What is graupel? How it is different from sleet or hail? - AOL

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    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.

  6. What’s the difference between sleet and freezing rain? Winter ...

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    If we can’t have snow, we might as well learn what all that other frozen precipitation is.

  7. Lillooet River - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1910s, the name Lillooet River also applied to what is now the Alouette River in Maple Ridge; the neighbourhood that grew up on its south branch became known as South Lillooet, but to avoid confusion the new postmaster was requested to come up with a name, choosing Yennadon after his family manor on the Devonshire Moors. [6]

  8. List of mountains of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Mountains can be found all over British Columbia while those in Alberta are mainly situated on the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies. The Saint Elias Mountains in the Yukon hold some of country's highest mountains, including the highest, Mount Logan at 5,959 metres (19,551 ft).

  9. List of rivers of Canada - Wikipedia

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    List of rivers of Alberta; List of rivers of British Columbia; List of rivers of Manitoba; List of rivers of New Brunswick; List of rivers of Newfoundland and Labrador; List of rivers of the Northwest Territories; List of rivers of Nova Scotia; List of rivers of Nunavut; List of rivers of Ontario; List of rivers of Prince Edward Island; List of ...

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