sleet
Thundersleet
By adamg - 2/2/11 - 6:19 pmOur living room here in Roslindale just brightened and then we heard thunder.
Bonnie heard/saw it just east of Union Square in Somerville.
Fred White reports from Jamaica Plain:
Some kind of mini sleet-hail balls are falling from the sky.
Dana Reichman Gitell photographed pea-sized hail in Roslindale:
What's the difference between sleet and freezing rain?
By adamg - 1/7/09 - 9:55 amKaren Wise wonders when they stopped being synonyms.
There is a big difference between sleet and freezing rain
By adamg - 2/6/08 - 10:52 pmDick 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. ...
