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Sleet is where a snowflake falls into a warmer surface layer below a cloud and melts, its starts to freeze again in the subfreezig surface layer of air, the partially melted snowflake or cold rain drop refreezes back into tiny translucent ice pellets known as sleet.

Freezing rain however, may only reach the surface layer as super cooled liquid drops due to a shallower cold surfce layer beneath the cloud. when the liquid drops strike upon a cold object it immediately spreads out and freezes instantly forming a thin layer of veneer ice.

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Sleet is rain drops that turn into ice when falling and going through a colder layer of air usually near the surface.They usually feel like watery snow.

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It occurs anywhere the temperature near the surface is near the freezing point, and precipitation is falling.

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Rain falls through a layer of very cold air

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wen water in clouds freeze

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It is because of the nimbus clouds

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Does it sleet in the winter?

Sleet requires temperatures to be below freezing in the lower part of the atmosphere and at the surface, so yes, it occurs in the winter.


What type of precipitation occurs as rain droplets move up and down through freezing and non freezing air?

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What is the difference between sleet and rain?

Rain is made up of water droplets, sleet is made up of small ice pellets.


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What kind of precipitation forms when strong winds toss ice crystals up and down in a cloud?

The answer is easy ice crystals and super cooled droplets in a cloud form hail or sleet.


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What is cloud droplets combine and grow large enough to fall to earth?

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