Sleet
Sleet is a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
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- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1911.
Sleet is a regionally variant term for two distinct forms of precipitation:
- Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (UK, Ireland, and most Commonwealth countries)
- Ice pellets, one of three forms of precipitation in "wintry mixes", the other two being snow and freezing rain (United States, Canada)
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