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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)
  • frozen rain, sleet is the form of rain in a frozen state a few degrees warmer than snow. snow and sleet differ in temperature.

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