In the US “sleet” is the term for a winter precipitation that occurs when snow falls through a layer of warm air and melts into water droplets, then re-freezes into ice pellets as it passes through colder air closer to the ground. In many other areas that were part of the British empire that precipitation is called “ice pellets” and “sleet” instead refers to a mix of snow and rain. In the US that’s called a “wintry mix.”
That’s funny, an ice storm to me on the east coast means freezing rain.
Freezing rain is different. It’s water droplets that freeze as they hit. Less sleet and more rain. Imo.
Right, a significant amount of that is what we would refer to as an ice storm.
This is getting confusing…