Sleet is a regionally variant term for some

meteorological phenomena This glossary of meteorology is a list of terms and concepts relevant to meteorology and atmospheric science, their sub-disciplines, and related fields. A ...

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Ice pellets Ice pellets ( Commonwealth English) or sleet (American English) is 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, a ...

, pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States) *

Rain and snow mixed Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow. Unlike ice pellets, which are hard, and freezing rain, which is fluid until striking an object where ...

, snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries) *

Glaze (ice) Glaze or glaze ice, also called glazed frost or verglas, is a smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits a surface. It is similar in appearance to clear ice, which forms from supercooled water dro ...

, a smooth coating of ice formed on objects by freezing rain.

People with the surname

David Sleet David A. Sleet is an American scientist recognized for championing the application of behavioral science to unintentional injury prevention and helping to establish injury prevention as a global public health concern. He has published hundreds o ...

* Don Sleet * Gregory M. Sleet * Jessie Sleet Scales * Moneta Sleet Jr.

Places

* Sleet Cone, a volcanic cone in British Columbia, Canada {{disambiguation