Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Weather/7/en
In American usage, sleet is a form of precipitation consisting of tiny frozen raindrops, or ice pellets. This is often mistaken for hail, but forms in a different fashion and is usually (but not always) smaller. This occurs when snow flakes falling through a small layer of warmer air in the atmosphere will begin to melt. They can then refreeze if they pass back into a layer of colder, sub-freezing air closer to the ground, resulting in little balls of ice. These ice balls may bounce when they hit the ground, and do not freeze into a solid mass unless mixed with freezing rain.
f. Hail
Hail forms on condensation nuclei such as dust, insects, or ice crystals, when super cooled water freezes on contact. Hailstones are usually from the size of a pea to the size of a golf ball.
