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.
A common symbol for sleet is a mixture of snowflake and raindrop icons. It is typically depicted as small white dots connected by vertical lines to represent frozen rain reaching the ground.
The four most common types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, and hail. Rain occurs as liquid water droplets, snow as frozen ice crystals, sleet as ice pellets, and hail as solid ice balls formed in thunderstorms.
The five main types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, hail, and drizzle. Rain is liquid water falling from clouds, snow is frozen water crystals, sleet is a mix of rain and ice pellets, hail is ice pellets falling from thunderstorms, and drizzle is very light rain.
Sleet forms when rain falls through a layer of freezing air and freezes before reaching the ground. It consists of frozen raindrops that bounce when they hit a surface.
The weather term that best describes rain, sleet, and snow is "precipitation." Precipitation refers to any form of water, liquid or solid, that falls from clouds and reaches the ground. This includes various types of moisture, such as rain (liquid water), sleet (ice pellets), and snow (frozen water crystals).
Another name for frozen rain is sleet. It is a type of frozen precipitation that consists of raindrops that have frozen before reaching the ground.
Hail is frozen rain, but it is made by accretion high in the clouds. Rain that freezes on its way down to the surface is called sleet.
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Hail or sleet.
Pellets of frozen rain are called sleet. Sleet forms when rain freezes before reaching the ground, creating small ice pellets.
Frozen drops of rain that fall as pellets of ice and water are called sleet. Sleet is formed when snowflakes partially melt as they fall through a warm layer of air, then refreeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground.
sleet i guess----------------------The above 'sleet' is correct for half frozen rain (that is falling). However half melted snow (on the ground) is called 'slush'.
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When rain hits the surface and turns to ice, it forms sleet, which is a type of frozen precipitation. Sleet can create hazardous driving conditions and icy surfaces.
a mix of freezing rain, sleet, snow
Ice pellets or sleet.