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Ice pellets (Canadian English [1]) 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 , and from a mixture of rain and snow , which is a slushy liquid or semisolid.
The ice that forms on roadways makes vehicle travel dangerous. Unlike snow, wet ice provides almost no traction, and vehicles will slide even on gentle slopes. Because freezing rain does not hit the ground as an ice pellet (called "sleet") but still as a rain droplet, it conforms to the shape of the ground, or object such as a tree branch or car.
Some examples of the instructions commonly provided for "reading" a weather rock include: If the rock is wet, it's raining. If the rock is swinging, the wind is blowing. If the rock casts a shadow, the sun is shining. If the rock does not cast a shadow and is not wet, the sky is cloudy. If the rock is difficult to see, it is foggy.
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 it fully freezes, this precipitation is soft and translucent, but it contains some traces of ice crystals from partially fused snowflakes, also called ...
Ice pellets generally fall in cold weather, while hail growth is greatly inhibited during low surface temperatures. Unlike other forms of water ice precipitation, such as graupel (which is made of rime ice ), ice pellets (which are smaller and translucent ), and snow (which consists of tiny, delicately crystalline flakes or needles), hailstones ...
China's Central Meteorological Observatory predicted more rain, snow and freezing weather in the south for the first half of this week, but said conditions would improve starting Thursday. ($1 = 7 ...
An ice storm, also known as a glaze event or a silver storm, is a type of winter storm characterized by freezing rain. [1] The U.S. National Weather Service defines an ice storm as a storm which results in the accumulation of at least 0.25-inch (6.4 mm) of ice on exposed surfaces.
raining shoemakers' apprentices Dutch: het regent pijpenstelen: raining pipe stems (or stair rods) Dutch (Flemish) het regent oude wijven: raining old women het regent kattenjongen: raining kittens Estonian: sajab nagu oavarrest: raining like from a beanstalk kallab nagu ämbrist: raining as if poured from a bucket Finnish: sataa kuin Esterin ...