Talk:Sleet

message: "In some countries, such as Canada and the UK, sleet is not a recognized meteorological term" I just ended up on this page because my app from the British Met Office warned me of "sleet" tomorrow! Looks like it's a 'code 18' http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/support/code-definitions  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.16.217.241 (talk) 22:27, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: of Americans who have never used the "American" definition of sleet nor ever heard any other American use it nor ever even heard of it period before I saw the article.Heathcliff (talk) 18:24, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Add me to the list

message: Right now, there's too much focus on what the WORD sleet means and how its used, with "usage" in the actual headers. There's a way to globalize this and talk about sleet without elevating word usage to the headers. Describe the physical properties and formation of same, and compare/contrast any differences in terminology due to regional differences. It's just too unwieldy and awkward as it is currently written. - Ageekgal (talk) 05:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs Restructuring

message: In the course of repairing incoming links to this dab, I revised the dab.  In the description of ice pellets, I put "more usual in summer", meaning that in summer ice pellets occur more often than rain and snow mixed.  (To my knowledge, ice pellets also occur more often in summer than in winter.)  Another editor changed it to "more usual in winter", I expect meaning that ice pellets are more common than hail in winter (hail being very rare then), and less common than hail in summer.  Yes, no?  My interest here is in helping readers figure out when "sleet" refers to one of the choices on this dab. --Una Smith (talk) 07:16, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be correct.  Ice pellets are a cold-season precipitation type, not at all common in the summer.  Besides hail, the only frozen form of precipitation "likely" (though much less likely than hail) to be encountered in summer is graupel.Famartin (talk) 13:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ice pellets more usual 

message: I'm not at all sure what state the article was in when all the above discussion took place. Anyway, it looks to me as though "sleet" is what yer man in the street calls it, whereas ice pellets is probably what the met service calls it, at least in the US. So I've made that distinction. Who knows, I may be wrong, in which case I've no doubt you'll tell me William M. Connolley (talk) 10:47, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common / techincal 

message: I functionally rewrote this disambiguation stub as it was written in a very strange, strident POV tone. The point should be to differentiate the difference between the official UK weather bureau definition (melted snow and rain) and the official US National Weather Service definition (granular ice pellet precepitation).
The point is not to explain your opinion on WHICH usage is the correct one. The point is to neutrally word it. Both terms are officially used by their respective weather bureaus. I don't care if your Great Aunty has ever heard of it. Anecdote is a grossly unsuitable source for information. Bravo Foxtrot (talk) 03:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Functional rewrite