sleet

This term describes a specific meteorological state where frozen precipitation occurs as small, translucent ice pellets. It is distinct from hail, which forms in thunderstorms, and snow, which consists of crystalline flakes. The feeling associated with sleet is typically one of biting cold and hazardous, slushy conditions. As a noun, sleet is treated as an uncountable mass noun. It describes the substance of the precipitation rather than individual pellets, meaning it does not have a plural form and requires quantifiers like "some" or "a bit of" rather than a numerical count.