Question
Write a brief note on sleet.
Solution
Sleet:
i. Sleet is frozen raindrops and refrozen melted snow-water.
ii. When a layer of air with the temperature above freezing point overlies a subfreezing layer near the ground, precipitation takes place in the form of sleet.
iii. Raindrops, which leave the warmer air, encounter the colder air below. As a result, they solidify and reach the ground as small pellets of ice not bigger than the raindrops from which they are formed.
