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In the US, cold weather ice pellets are called sleet(frozen rain), or more rarely graupel, which consists of ice crystals that collect on snowflakes.
Warm weather ice is hail, in which layers of ice build up on a nucleus as the ice is lifted aloft in thunderstorms.
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