Ice Pellets: Precipitation of transparent, spherical or irregular particles of ice
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. Sometimes, ice pellets bounce when they hit the ground.
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