Sleet is a regionally variant term for some
meteorological phenomena:
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Ice pellets
Ice pellets are a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail") which is made of frosty white opaque rime, and from a mixture of rain and snow which is a slushy ...
, pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States)
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Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (UK, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)
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Glaze, a smooth coating of ice formed on objects by freezing rain.
See also
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Freezing rain
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Ice storm
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Graupel
Graupel (; ), also called soft hail, hominy snow, or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming balls of crisp, opaque rime.
Graupel is distinct from ...
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Snow
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Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets generally fal ...
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