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What's the difference between sleet and freezing rain?

By adamg - 1/7/09 - 10:55 am

Karen Wise wonders when they stopped being synonyms.

There is a big difference between sleet and freezing rain

By adamg - 2/6/08 - 11:52 pm

Dick Albert educates us:

... Sleet is small pellets of ice that bounce as they hit the ground and the ice pellets do not stick to objects. Freezing rain is liquid that falls as drops and freezes to objects upon contact. ...