Yes because it is a mixture of water and ice or water and snow.
Sleet contain only water: solid or liquid.
Yes!
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.
Ice rain Ice rain is an interesting mixture of three kinds of preticipation snow rain and sleet to form hail.
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No. Sleet is a form of winter precipitation. Some thunderstorms, however, produce hail, which is sometimes confused with sleet.
The African savanna grasslands get no sleet.
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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.
Precipitation consisting of generally transparent frozen raindrops that form when snowflakes fall through a warmer layer and melt, before passing through a sub-freezing layer near the surface and completely refreezing into ice pellets. Sleet does not freeze on contact like freezing rain (also known as glaze).
In the US it's just called a 'wintry mix,' although sometimes it is more commonly referred to as "sleet.' If you're referring to the METAR code, it's RASN.
A mixture of rain and snow falling at the same time is known as sleet.
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Ice rain Ice rain is an interesting mixture of three kinds of preticipation snow rain and sleet to form hail.
I hope it does not sleet tonight! I don't like to drive in the sleet.
That would be sleet.
i hate the sleet!