Sleet
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Sleet
is a regionally variant term for some
meteorological phenomena
:
Ice pellets
, pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States)
Rain and snow mixed
, snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)
Glaze (ice)
, a smooth coating of ice formed on objects by freezing rain.