In the US “sleet” is the term for a winter precipitation that occurs when snow falls through a layer of warm air and melts into water droplets, then re-freezes into ice pellets as it passes through colder air closer to the ground. In many other areas that were part of the British empire that precipitation is called “ice pellets” and “sleet” instead refers to a mix of snow and rain. In the US that’s called a “wintry mix.”
I’ve never heard of winter mix. What you describe I’ve always heard and called sleet. Anyone I know of in the West has called it sleet. If ice pellets were falling it would be called an ice storm, not A mixture of snow and rain.
Same here, sleet is like half frozen snow, slush kind of rain, only definition I have seen used in the upper midwest.
Sleet is like raining slush in the us too. That was the only definition I knew of.
Come to think of it, I’ve never really bothered thinking about what sleet is. I’ve always just put it in the “you know it when you see it” category.
If I pummel my brain for what I would describe it as, I’d say it’s wet, heavy snow in a wind. Like “really soft hail” I suppose.
But yeah…I never bothered. Interesting thought experiment for myself.
Soft hail is called graupel.
Um, no. Hail is the frozen pellets. Sleet is the wintery icy mix. US.
Hail is precip that has been able to repeatedly rise and fall on air currents, building up in size. What they’re referring to as sleet is essentially just crunchy snow in size and texture.
Sleet is usually kind of slushy. Hail can crack a windshield. I’ve never heard of the pellets as sleet.
Yeah. This is hail. 2018 Denver area, Colorado. When the conditions are right, I suspect the air currents swirl this against the mountain range until its heavy enough to get launched across the state.
I wouldn’t call this sleet in any country as sleet just sounds too dainty.
You’re thinking of sheet. Sleet is the act of ejaculating onto something
You’re thinking of skeet. Sleet is a type of minor roadway that leads to shops and apartments.
Real talk tho, when little John released that song, I assumed skeet was an attempt at creating a past-tense verb out of the noun scat, and he was talking about having explosive diarrhea in a hotel room (potentially from questionable food while on tour?)
Wild to assume the entire US agrees on much of anything.
