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I separated out the ice pellets portion of the sleet article and, after some more tweaking, put it here. Famartin ( talk) 14:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
You can get thunderstorms in winter as well. Is this sentence intending to mean that ice pellets only form in winter (and not from thunderstorms), as opposed to hail that can form in thunderstorms regardless of season? Iapetus ( talk) 12:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Famartin, please read MOS:ALTNAME. Per the sources I've added to the article, sleet is clearly a significant alternative name for ice pellets, and therefore should be in the lead section. Per MOS:LEADCLUTTER, a separate section for alternative names is only necessary if there are more than two. Please restore my changes. AdA&D 14:57, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Certainly we call ice pellets hail in Britain, whatever the size of the pellets. We use the term sleet for the mixture of snow and rain with or without pellets. This latter is a very common form of precipitation during British winters. I've never heard the term ice pellets used here. Moving on, I think the first sentence is an awful piece of communication -- far, far too long. I would like to see hail and ice pellets at the top as equivalent terms, and shorter sentences all through. Macdonald-ross ( talk) 09:20, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
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I separated out the ice pellets portion of the sleet article and, after some more tweaking, put it here. Famartin ( talk) 14:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
You can get thunderstorms in winter as well. Is this sentence intending to mean that ice pellets only form in winter (and not from thunderstorms), as opposed to hail that can form in thunderstorms regardless of season? Iapetus ( talk) 12:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Famartin, please read MOS:ALTNAME. Per the sources I've added to the article, sleet is clearly a significant alternative name for ice pellets, and therefore should be in the lead section. Per MOS:LEADCLUTTER, a separate section for alternative names is only necessary if there are more than two. Please restore my changes. AdA&D 14:57, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Certainly we call ice pellets hail in Britain, whatever the size of the pellets. We use the term sleet for the mixture of snow and rain with or without pellets. This latter is a very common form of precipitation during British winters. I've never heard the term ice pellets used here. Moving on, I think the first sentence is an awful piece of communication -- far, far too long. I would like to see hail and ice pellets at the top as equivalent terms, and shorter sentences all through. Macdonald-ross ( talk) 09:20, 2 February 2019 (UTC)