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Sleet is precipitation made of small particles of ice. How does sleet form?

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There must be a layer of air near the ground whose temperature is below freezing, where water turns to ice. Above this layer of freezing air must be a layer of warmer air. As snow falls through the warm air, it melts or partially melts into raindrops. It forms sleet before it reaches the ground.

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Sleet is pellets of ice that form when snow falls into a warm layer and melts into rain. The rain then falls into a freezing layer of air that is deep enough to refreeze the raindrops into pellets. Sometimes the snow does not completely melt and the partially melted snowflakes refreeze into snow pellets.:

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