This is a form of winter precipitation. It is frozen precipitation falling as ice pellets. Snowflakes melt into raindrops as they pass through a thin layer of warmer air. The raindrops then refreeze into particles of ice when they fall into a layer of sub-freezing air near the surface of the earth.

Question

This precipitation is called
A) hail.
B) rain.
C) sleet.
D) snow.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

sleet