Ice pellets
precipitation of transparent, spherical or irregular particles of ice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ice pellets are known as sleet in North America, and hail in Great Britain. They are a type of frozen precipitation, little balls of ice. Large ice pellets are called hailstones.[1][2] Sometimes, ice pellets bounce when they hit the ground.

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