Both. Hail is typically formed in the summer by thunderstorms, where the upper atmosphere gets really cold. Sleet is frozen rain formed in the winter usually, where snow melts, then re-freezes.
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The 4 main precipitaions are rain, hail, sleek and snow
The four most common types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, and hail. Rain occurs as liquid water droplets, snow as frozen ice crystals, sleet as ice pellets, and hail as solid ice balls formed in thunderstorms.
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four tyes of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, and hail
The five main types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, hail, and drizzle. Rain is liquid water falling from clouds, snow is frozen water crystals, sleet is a mix of rain and ice pellets, hail is ice pellets falling from thunderstorms, and drizzle is very light rain.