Ice pellets are frozen raindrops. They’re hard beads of ice that plunk out of the sky with a satisfying tinking sound. Known as “sleet” south of the border, ice pellets can accumulate like snow.

Freezing Rain, then Ice Pellets, Then Light Snow. Story by Richard Berler • 2mo. L AREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Temperatures are now falling to and below freezing. During this evening, ...

"Freezing rain is by far the most dangerous because it forms a solid sheet of ice, as opposed to sleet that just has small ice pellets that quickly bounce off of the surface," AccuWeather ...

Sleet starts out as frozen precipitation high in the atmosphere, melts as it hits a layer of warm shallow air, then refreezes into small ice pellets before hitting the ground or other objects ...

Sleet starts out as frozen precipitation high in the atmosphere, melts as it hits a layer of warm, shallow air, then refreezes into small ice pellets before hitting the ground or other objects ...

Sleet is an ice pellet that is simply frozen rain. This occurs when the temperature aloft at the cloud level is warm, but the surface and just above the surface is below freezing.

Unlike freezing rain, however, sleet forms by the rain freezing into ice while falling through the sky. By the time it makes it to the ground, it is already in the form of small ice pellets, so we ...

Graupel - Soft ice pellets forming when water droplets reach temperatures below 32 degrees and freeze onto a snow crystal. This form of precipitation is more milky white in color.

Sleet and ice pellets are different terms for the same phenomenon: precipitation in the form of ice grains formed from the freezing of raindrops or refreezing of largely melted snowflakes that ...

"Freezing rain is by far the most dangerous because it forms a solid sheet of ice, as opposed to sleet that just has small ice pellets that quickly bounce off of the surface," AccuWeather ...