For sleet to occur, the warm air layer is rather thin. There is a larger wedge of cold air that refreezes the partially melted snowflakes into ice pellets (aka sleet).

The hailstones grow bigger in the clouds as ice crystals and cloud droplets freeze onto them. They are suspended in the clouds by strong winds that push up into the storm.

NORFOLK, Va. — During inclement weather, you may see some ice pellets falling from the sky and wonder whether you’re seeing sleet or hail. There’s a huge difference in how those two ice ...

This causes the rain droplets to freeze into small ice pellets known as sleet. Finally, and often the most dangerous type of winter precipitation, is freezing rain.

Lift happens when the sun heats the ground, warm air rises, cools and condenses into clouds, which are made up of water, ice and water/ice pellets. Get local news you need to know to start your ...

These ice pellets fall from the cloud, often hoisted up once again by the updrafts. This cycle causes layers of ice to accumulate on hailstones, increasing the size and weight.

FOLLOWING Schaefer's cloud-chamber experiments1 on the formation of ice crystals in supercooled water-droplet clouds by localized cooling, Langmuir has noted the possibilities of producing ice ...

Ice pellets form when snowflakes start to melt as they fall from the cloud, then fall through sub-freezing air where they re-freeze into grain-like particles. Sometimes the snow may only partially ...

Ice pellets are expected, and the sky will be mostly cloudy with 90% cloud cover. The wind will be quite strong, so make sure to bundle up if you need to head outside.

Sleet is made up of ice pellets that bounce off objects. ... The hailstones grow bigger in the clouds as ice crystals and cloud droplets freeze onto them.