ice pellets or granules of frozen rain. Occurs when rain falls into a layer of air with temperatures below freezing. Sleet usually bounces when hitting a surface and does not stick, but can accumulate on roadways causing a hazard to motorists.

Rain that turns to ice pellets before reaching the ground. Sleet also causes roads to freeze and become slippery.

super cooled rain that freezes onto cold surfaces upon contact.

Precipitation that starts as rain and freezes or partially freezes on the way to the ground.

Precipitation that falls as small ice pellets. Sleet is much smaller than hail, only about 1/8th of an inch in diameter.

solid grains of ice formed as rain freezes before reaching the ground.

A type of precipitation consisting of transparent pellets of ice 5 millimeters or less in diameter. Sleet is rainfall that freezes before it hits the ground.

Precipitation consisting of transparent pellets of ice, 5 millimeters or less in diameter. Also called ice pellets. Forms when snow enters a warm layer of air above the surface and melts and then enters a deep layer of sub freezing air on the surface and refreezes.

precipitation consisting of generally transparent frozen or partially frozen raindrops.

Frozen raindrops that fall as ice pellets. Formed by liquid rain falling through a deep sub- freezing layer of air and freezing before striking the ground.

Frozen precipitation that results when rain drops freeze while falling, before hitting the ground. This occurs when rain falls through a layer of colder air underlying a layer of warmer air. See Temperature Inversion.

Describes solid grains of ice formed by the freezing of raindrops or the refreezing of largely melted snowflakes. These grains usually bounce upon impact with the ground or pavement.

A type of frozen precipitation, consisting of small transparent ice pellets.

precipitation that falls as tiny balls of ice

precipitation that consists of clear pellets of ice; sleet is formed when raindrops fall through a layer of cold air and freeze

mixture of rain and hail

frozen or partly frozen falling rain; ice pellets

Precipitation consisting of ice particles formed when raindrops freeze.

Raindrops 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.

Frozen or partially frozen rain that form when rain passes through a layer of air that is below the freezing temperature, falls to earth as a slush. Freshwater.

a form of precipitation in which droplets are partially frozen as water-ice (or water-snow) mixture.

Depending on the region, precipitation of rain or snow mixed, or rain and hail, or rain and ice pellets, or melting snow, or sudden and brief rainfall with wind and hail.

falling snow or hail that has partly melted; partly frozen rain

a mixture of rain and snow that fall when the temperature is around the freezing level.

A type of precipitation consisting of transparent or translucent chunks of ice normally measuring 5mm or less in diameter, also termed Ice Pellets.

Frozen precipitation that falls as little chunks o' ice.

Generally refers to a mixture of rain and snow or falling snow that is melting into rain.

Wintry precipitation mix of rain and snow (used in the U.K.) mix of rain and hail melting snow frozen raindrops that bound on impact with the ground (used in the U.S.A.).

See ice pellets. 2. In British terminology, and colloquially in some parts of the United States, precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

(1) (United States) frozen raindrops that bind on impact with the ground (2) (elsewhere) a mix of rain and snow, a mix of rain and hail, or melting snow.

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 the METAR.

In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, sleet refers to snow that has partially melted on its fall to the ground due to surrounding air that is sufficiently warm to partially melt it while falling; but not warm enough to fully melt it into rain.