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sleet, precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If they pass through a layer with a temperature below the freezing point, they turn into sleet. Snowflakes that have melted by passing through a warm layer will turn into sleet if they then pass through a freezing layer. Sleet often falls together with snow and rain, and may deposit an icy coating on exposed surfaces. Sleet occurs only during the winter, while hail hail, precipitation in the form of pellets composed of ice or of ice and snow, occurring at any time of the year, usually during the passage of a cold front or during a thunderstorm. Small hailstones have a soft center and a single outer coat of ice. ..... Click the link for more information. , a different form of icy precipitation, may fall at any time of the year. sleet 1. partly melted falling snow or hail or (esp US) partly frozen rain 2. Chiefly US the thin coat of ice that forms when sleet or rain freezes on cold surfaces sleet [slēt] (meteorology) Colloquially in some parts of the United States, precipitation in the form of a mixture of snow and rain. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist. A furious gale stormed across the country, scourging it with desolating drifts of sleet. You behold another phase of his passion, a fury bejewelled with stars, mayhap bearing the crescent of the moon on its brow, shaking the last vestiges of its torn cloud-mantle in inky-black squalls, with hail and sleet descending like showers of crystals and pearls, bounding off the spars, drumming on the sails, pattering on the oilskin coats, whitening the decks of homeward-bound ships. |
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