These flakes, shaped by nature, are usually in a complex six sided hexagonal shape. Sleet is frozen rain. Rain that start down from a cloud will at times freeze as it goes through a cold layer of air. This creates pellets of ice. In contrast to snow which falls as quiet flakes, sleet can be very noisy as it hits your home or car.
Freezing rain falls from the cloud all the way to the ground as liquid precipitation.
But as the rain hits the ground or other objects such as your car, it freezes on impact creating a sheet of ice. Some of our worst wintertime travel problems occur with freezing rain. TMJ4 is not responsible for the content of external sites links through our site.