sleet

Thundersleet

adamg — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:19:14 +0000

Our 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?

adamg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:55:08 +0000

Karen Wise wonders when they stopped being synonyms.

There is a big difference between sleet and freezing rain

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:52:41 +0000

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. ...