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Is sleet from thunderstorm

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No. Sleet is a form of winter precipitation. Some thunderstorms, however, produce hail, which is sometimes confused with sleet.

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What can a severe thunderstorm produce?

hail, tornados, sleet, freezing rain, etc.


What is an ice pellet larger than 5mm in diameter that forms during a thunderstorm?

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Can thunderstorms form on cold days?

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How are sleet and hailstones formed different?

Sleet is completely frozen rain drops and hail is formed from graupel falling in a storm cloud, collecting water and then being pushed back up by the updraft and the water it just collected freezing to form another layer of ice. The key difference is that hail is formed from thunderstorm updrafts and sleet is not.


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Does hail fall from the cloud as hail or rain?

It forms as hail. Hail actually starts out in the upper portion of a thunderstorm a graupel, a form of ice pellet somewhat between sleet and snow. The pellets collect layer after layer of ice until the fall out of the thunderstorm.


What is a kind of rain but the drops are ice?

Frozen raindrops are sleet, individual pellets of ice.Snow is formed by ice crystals that form around a particle of dust.Hail is a ball of frozen ice that accumulates by layers in a thunderstorm.


Is hail frozen rain?

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How are sleet and freezing rain and DIFFERENT?

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How do you get snow and hail at the same time?

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