.... They're both cold
sleet or freezing rain, depending on the temperature profile. If the raindrops freeze completely into ice pellets before hitting the ground, it is sleet. If the raindrops freeze upon impact with surfaces at or below freezing, it is freezing rain.
The 4 main precipitaions are rain, hail, sleek and snow
Falling rain that passes through a layer of freezing air forms sleet or freezing rain, depending on the temperature profile. Sleet occurs when rain partially freezes into ice pellets before reaching the ground, while freezing rain falls as liquid and then freezes on contact with surfaces, creating a layer of ice.
Sleet occurs when rain droplets fall through a layer of freezing air close to the ground, causing them to freeze into ice pellets before reaching the surface.
Winter
Freezing rain and sleet are the same thing if you leave it up to the basics. Both of them are tiny bits of ice falling from the clouds.
Freezing precipitation is called sleet or freezing rain.
sleet or freezing rain, depending on the temperature profile. If the raindrops freeze completely into ice pellets before hitting the ground, it is sleet. If the raindrops freeze upon impact with surfaces at or below freezing, it is freezing rain.
Sleet
It becomes sleet...
ground temperature below freezing, and air temperature slightly above freezing.
Freezing rain Sleet
The 4 main precipitaions are rain, hail, sleek and snow
Sleet requires temperatures to be below freezing in the lower part of the atmosphere and at the surface, so yes, it occurs in the winter.
Falling rain that passes through a layer of freezing air forms sleet or freezing rain, depending on the temperature profile. Sleet occurs when rain partially freezes into ice pellets before reaching the ground, while freezing rain falls as liquid and then freezes on contact with surfaces, creating a layer of ice.
Rain occurs when the temperature is above freezing both in the clouds and at the ground level. If the temperature in the clouds is below freezing but at the ground level it is above freezing, sleet or freezing rain may occur.
Rain, sleet, hail, snow and freezing rain