Rain and snow mixed

Rain and snow mixed is known as sleet outside of North America and some parts of Canada. It happens when some of snow that is falling melts into water, causing precipitation that is not quite snow but not quite rain. The name may be shortened to RASN.

Rain And Snow Mixed Media

Rain-snow-mix soundings; left diagram shows typical skew-T appearance, while right diagram shows variations which result in mixtures of rain and snow

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