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A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow,
  1. Sleet falls
    • - it was sleeting so hard we could barely see
Noun
  1. A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow

  2. A thin coating of ice formed by sleet or rain freezing on contact with a cold surface

  1. partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
  2. precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet"
  3. Rain which freezes before reaching the ground; A mixture of rain and snow; To be in a state in which sleet is falling
  4. Rain drops that freeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground. Sleet usually bounces when hitting a surface and does not stick to objects. However, it can accumulate like snow and cause a hazard to motorists.
  5. Solid grains of ice formed from rain that freezes before reaching the ground. These pellets of ice tend to bounce upon contact and may accumulate enough to cover the ground, even to depth of several inches.
  6. A type of frozen precipitation, consisting of small transparent pellets.
  7. Rain that turns to ice pellets before reaching the ground. Sleet also causes moisture on roads to freeze and become slippery.
  8. a form of precipitation where snow falls through warmer air and arrives at the surface partially melted.
  9. Also known as ice pellets, it is winter precipitation in the form of small bits or pellets of ice that rebound after striking the ground or any other hard surface. It is reported as "PE" in an observation and on METAR.
  10. When the fall is a mixture of both rain and snow we have sleet.As snow falls it can pass through warmer air on the way down and some of the ice crystals melt into water droplets.
  11. Frozen or semifrozen rain formed when raindrops freeze as they pass through a layer of cold air.
  12. In Britain, rain mixed with snow; in America, ice pellets formed when snowflakes pass through a layer of warm air, partially thaw, then refreeze on further descent.
  13. Ice pellets, made up of partly froze rain, that fall during cold weather are called sleet.
  14. solid grains of ice formed by the freezing of raindrops or the refreezing of largely melted snowflakes.
  15. Precipitation in the form of ice pellets created when rain freezes as it falls to Earth from the atmosphere.
  16. Frozen or partly frozen rain.
  17. Rain & ice mixed together