hi friends I want to prepare a chart on sleet formation
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Sleet is rain or melted snowthat freezes into ice pellets before hitting the ground. Sleet only happens under very specific weatherconditions.
There must be a layer of air near the ground whose temperature is below freezing, where water turns to ice. Above this layer of freezing air must be a layer of warmer air. As snow falls through the warm air, it melts or partially melts into raindrops. As the melted snow falls through the cold layer of air, it re-freezes. It forms ice pellets, or sleet, before hitting the ground.
Sleet falls as tiny, hard pieces of ice. Sleet usually cannot do severe damage to crops or transportation systems the way heavy snow, freezing rain, or hail can. In fact, sleet is so light and tiny it usually bounces when it hits a hard surface.
Sleet is not the same as freezing rain. Freezing rain also falls through a cold layer of air close to the ground. However, the rain does not freeze until it touches the surface of an object. When you see trees coated in jackets of ice, you are seeing the results of freezing rain. The rain was liquid when it landed on the tree branch, then immediately froze solid.
Sleet also is not the same as hail. Hail, like sleet, is a collection of ice pellets. But hail forms in a cloud, while sleet forms as it falls. Hail freezes from the inside out, while sleet freezes from the outside in. Hail also tends to fall during thunderstorms in the spring and summer. Sleet usually falls in the winter.
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There must be a layer of air near the ground whose temperature is below freezing, where water turns to ice. Above this layer of freezing air must be a layer of warmer air. As snow falls through the warm air, it melts or partially melts into raindrops. As the melted snow falls through the cold layer of air, it re-freezes. It forms ice pellets, or sleet, before hitting the ground.
Sleet falls as tiny, hard pieces of ice. Sleet usually cannot do severe damage to crops or transportation systems the way heavy snow, freezing rain, or hail can. In fact, sleet is so light and tiny it usually bounces when it hits a hard surface.
Sleet is not the same as freezing rain. Freezing rain also falls through a cold layer of air close to the ground. However, the rain does not freeze until it touches the surface of an object. When you see trees coated in jackets of ice, you are seeing the results of freezing rain. The rain was liquid when it landed on the tree branch, then immediately froze solid.
Sleet also is not the same as hail. Hail, like sleet, is a collection of ice pellets. But hail forms in a cloud, while sleet forms as it falls. Hail freezes from the inside out, while sleet freezes from the outside in. Hail also tends to fall during thunderstorms in the spring and summer. Sleet usually falls in the winter.
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Sleet: These are tiny balls of ice that are, in essence, frozen raindrops. Rain that freezes on the way down. They ping and bounce off the road and your car and your roof. When I lived in CA, we would occasionally see these in winter and we called them hail, but ice pellets are a totally different winter phenomenon.
Sleet is much more benign. Sleet forms when precipitation starts falling out of the clouds as snow, but encounters a warm layer of air (above freezing) on the way down. The snow melts into rain, but then the rain falls into a colder layer of air near the ground (below freezing). The rain freezes back into ice pellets
Sleet is a frozen rain or drizzle drop. It was formed in a relatively warm layer aloft and then falls into a layer near the surface that is below the melting point of water.
Sleet is a mixture of rain and ice pellets. Probably my least favourite form of freezing precipitation because the tiny little ice pellets sting when they hit your face...
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