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Sleet is completely frozen rain drops and hail is formed from graupel falling in a storm cloud, collecting water and then being pushed back up by the updraft and the water it just collected freezing to form another layer of ice. The key difference is that hail is formed from thunderstorm updrafts and sleet is not.
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How are sleet and hailstones formed diffrently?
Sleet is formed when ice crystals fall as rain that freeze before it hits the ground. Hailstones form when strong winds blow raindrops back upward to the top of where the temperature is freezing. Then, the raindrops freeze into small pieces of ice. This process might happen several times where many layers of ice may build up. Once the hailstones are too heavy and the wind can blow them back up, the hail falls to the ground.
What are Frozen drops of rain that fall as pellets of ice and water?
This is frozen rain, which can be part of an ice storm. (Sleet is rain that freezes into ice pellets as it falls.)
How do you describe how hailstones grow different sizes?
well there is differnt sizes of the hailstones
How does the humidity of air effect the type of snow that falls?
It soon then becomes powdered snow and sometimes makes sleet or hailstones too.
What diffence between sleet and frozen rain?
Actually they are the same; sleet is frozen rain, or ice pellets. This is not to be confused with FREEZING rain, which is rain that freezes near the ground level if it is colder than above. Sleet is already frozen when it hits.
How is a hailstorm classified?
A hailstorm is classified by the size of the hailstones. The size of the hailstones are determined by comparing the hailstones to different objects, like a penny or nickel or even sometimes a baseball.
Are all hailstones round?
No, hailstones are not round. They come in different shapes and sizes becasue they are so rough.
Which is formed when frozen rain is coated with water and refreezes?
sleet
How many people are killed annually by hailstones?
Its different every year
What is a name for precipitation?
Rain, snow or sleet formed by the condensation of water vapour
What are Sleet and hail types of?
Both. Hail is typically formed in the summer by thunderstorms, where the upper atmosphere gets really cold. Sleet is frozen rain formed in the winter usually, where snow melts, then re-freezes.
What forms when raindrops pass through a layer of freezing air?
There are three precipitation forms that are collections of ice.1) In the US, frozen ice pellets are called sleet. This consists of melted snowflakes that are refrozen and fall as small pellets of ice, rather than freezing rain (glaze).2) The form graupel or "soft hail" consists of ice that accumulates on falling snowflakes. This is encapsulated snow.3) Layered ice, sometimes in clumps, is hail. Hailstones form through repeated cycles of liquid coating and freezing, almost always in thunderstorms.
