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I have never heard of this before: We are expected to get 3-5" of "ice pellets" tomorrow. Is that what they're calling hail now? -- nm

Posted by CQ (aka CQ) Jan 21 '16, 11:03

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No, it's different. Little chunks of ice about a quarter of a tic tac that fall like snow. -- nm - Reagen Jan 21, 11:07
that's an ice storm. That's the stuff that brings down tree limbs etc (and takes out power lines). -- nm - Andie Jan 21, 11:07 3
- No, that's freezing rain. -- nm - Ender Jan 21, 11:09 2
  - that can do it too, but here are pics from Toronto two years ago - this wasn't freezing rain that fell. -- (link) - Andie Jan 21, 11:10 1
    - If it was solid when it fell, like sleet, it would have just bounced off the trees and landed on the ground. -- nm - Ender Jan 21, 11:15
aka Sleet -- (link) - JD Jan 21, 11:07
That would be sleet, not hail. -- nm - Ender Jan 21, 11:06
You'll wish for hail. It's a sleet/freezing rain mixture and you ain't going nowhere until it melts. - spamlet Jan 21, 11:05
Not sure if that is technical term, but when I hear that, I think frozen rain. It falls slowly and doesn't damage anything. -- nm - GregW Jan 21, 11:05
Wikipedia says they're smaller than hailstones. -- nm - mara Jan 21, 11:04 1
- better than ice missiles, I guess -- nm - CQ Jan 21, 11:06
freezing rain aka you all be fucked. -- nm - Beaker Jan 21, 11:04 1
- Freezing rain is different, that's when liquid rain falls and then freezes after it hits the ground. -- nm - Ender Jan 21, 11:07
just in the South -- nm - decline Jan 21, 11:04

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