Crossword clues for sleet
sleet
- Frozen downpour
- Chilling forecast
- "Wintry mix" stuff
- Wintry road hazard
- Wintry downpour
- Weather that won't stop the mailman
- Slick stuff from the sky
- Semifrozen downpour
- Icy winter weather
- Icy downpour
- Hazardous precipitation
- Hail's cousin
- Frozen drops
- Falling pellets
- Cold weather
- A winter woe
- Wintry pellets
- Wintry mix stuff
- Wintry hazard
- Weather Channel forecast, perhaps
- Unwelcome winter forecast
- Unwelcome weather
- Stinging precipitation
- Some bad weather
- Rough weather
- Rain's relative
- Nasty weather
- It adds to hazardous driving conditions
- Icy weather
- Frozen fall
- Form of rain
- Dangerous weather
- Chilly fall
- Cause of a skid, perhaps
- Bad fall
- _____ storm
- Wintry woe
- Wintry rain
- Wintry mix weather
- Wintry mix revealed in the circled letters (it's the puzzle theme!)
- Wintry mix element
- Wintry downfall
- Wintery mix
- Wintery downpour
- Winter wet stuff
- Winter weather
- Winter weather forecast
- Winter weather condition
- Winter rain
- Winter possibility
- Winter outlook
- Winter mix
- Winter downpour
- Winter condition
- Winter admix
- Windshield-wiper target
- Wet wintry woe
- Weather news
- Unlikely weather in May
- Trucker's challenge
- The stuff of wintry mixes
- Street-slickening shower
- Some inclement weather
- Slippery forecast
- Slickener from the sky
- Seasonal fall
- Salt truck's target
- Road slicker
- Reason for closed schools, perhaps
- Reason for a travel advisory
- Rain/snow mixture
- Rain mixed with snow or hail
- Precipitation form
- Potentially dangerous winter weather
- Postal creed weather word
- Possible school delayer
- Pellets from up high
- Partly frozen precipitation
- Nor'easter forecast
- Messy weather
- Messy forecast
- Late fall fall
- It makes it harder to drive
- It freezes before it hits the ground
- Inclement weather advisory
- Inclement forecast
- Icy wet stuff
- Ice storm phenomenon
- Hazardous forecast
- Harsh precipitation
- Hard winter outlook?
- Hard weather to deal with
- Hard fall
- Hail relative
- Forecast around 32°
- February forecast, sometimes
- February forecast, occasionally
- Fall that might make you slip
- Fall that may sting
- Fall fall, sometimes
- Dangerous driving weather
- Dangerous downfall
- Crappy winter forecast
- Crappy weather
- Cold, messy forecast
- Cold-weather fall
- Chilly precipitation
- Cause of wintertime flight delays
- Cause of slick roads
- Cause of skids, in winter
- Bad driving weather
- Bad driving condition
- Another Weather Channel forecast
- Postman's challenge
- Winter forecast, sometimes
- Hard rain?
- Winter precipitation, sometimes
- Driving hazard
- Winter weather word
- Ice fall
- February forecast, perhaps
- Winter driving hazard
- Winter hazard
- Hard fall?
- Wintry forecast
- December forecast, perhaps
- Reason to use wipers
- Ugly winter forecast
- Cause of some skids
- Ugly forecast
- Icy rain
- Highway hazard
- Cause of an accident, maybe
- Cold shower?
- Street slickener
- Fall of winter
- Unwelcome forecast
- Rain-snow mixture
- Precipitation at about 32В°
- Winter accident cause
- Skid's cause, maybe
- Weather caution for motorists
- Some pellets
- Miserable weather
- Possible flight delayer
- Tricky driving condition
- Driving danger
- Icy precipitation
- Frozen 52-Across
- Precipitation around 32 degrees
- Wintry mix component
- Ugly weather matter
- Cold fall
- Weather warning
- Forecast that might call for gloves and galoshes
- Forecast around 32В°
- Freezing rain
- Fall that might cause falls
- Partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
- Ice-cold shower
- Thin, icy coating
- Frozen raindrops
- Perilous precipitation
- Brumal precipitation
- Hail's kin
- Icy pellets
- Road hazard
- Nasty precipitation
- Winter road hazard
- Partly frozen rain
- Winter phenomenon
- Bad weather
- Dangerous downpour
- Hiemal hazard
- Weather forecast
- Wintry fallout
- Glaze of a sort
- Menace for motorists
- It's between snow and rain
- Accident-causer
- One cause of crashes
- Weather word
- Forecast word
- Rain icy particles
- Winter fall
- Ugly-weather factor
- Danger on a highway
- Frozen wintry coating
- Wintry precipitation
- Ice pellets
- Wintry phenomenon
- Solid rain
- Virga's cousin
- Wintertime precipitation
- Icy fall
- Weather offering
- Precipitation type
- Bad news for motorists
- Mixture of rain and snow
- Mixed rain and melting snow
- Street includes area that’s sheltered – from this, perhaps
- Shelter in extremes of severest winter weather
- Rain with ice
- Rain and snow mixed
- Precipitation at about 32°
- Winter woe
- Winter driving impairment
- Winter coating
- Some precipitation
- Highway headache
- Frozen precipitation
- Winter covering
- Hard rain
- Cold shower
- Wintry weather woe
- Icy forecast
- Dangerous precipitation
- Winter-weather word
- Some winter precipitation
- Postal creed obstacle
- Fall in winter?
- Winter warning
- Part of a wintry mix
- Nasty fall
- Icy shower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleet \Sleet\, n. (Gun.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Sleet \Sleet\, n. [OE. sleet; akin to MHG. sl?z, sl?ze hailstone, G. schlosse; of uncertain origin.] Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
Sleet \Sleet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sleeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeting.] To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, slete, either from an unrecorded Old English *slete, *slyte, related to Middle High German sloz, Middle Low German sloten (plural) "hail," from Proto-Germanic *slautjan- (cognates: dialectal Norwegian slutr, Danish slud, Swedish sloud "sleet"), from root *slaut-.
early 14c., from sleet (n.). Related: Sleeted; sleeting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly UK Ireland English) A mixture of rain and snow. 2 rain which freezes before reaching the ground. 3 (context firearms English) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions. vb. (context impersonal of the weather English) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
WordNet
n. partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
v. precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet"
Wikipedia
Sleet is a regionally variant term that refers to two distinct forms of precipitation:
- Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (UK, Ireland, and most British Commonwealth countries)
- Ice pellets, one of three forms of precipitation in "wintry showers" or "wintry mixes", the other two being snow and freezing rain (United States)
Usage examples of "sleet".
Now a sleet of bullets hissed through their ranks as they retired, and the gallant Lord Airlie, as modest and brave a soldier as ever drew sword, was struck through the heart.
It had started to rain, an evil sleet running in curtains across the slippery autobahn, and the mesmeric effect of the windshield wipers almost sent him to sleep.
There was sleet that evening, with a whopping wind, but neither this storm nor that other which so imminently threatened him held place in the consciousness of Bibbs Sheridan when he came once more to the presence of Mary.
The Odim clan was gathering in the courtyard, where slaves were still meddling inefficiently with long rods, climbing in and out of the biogas inspection pit, despite the sleet in the air.
Odim clan was gathering in the courtyard, where slaves were still meddling inefficiently with long rods, climbing in and out of the biogas inspection pit, despite the sleet in the air.
Babette shivered under her shawl, and looked more drearily than ever at the lashing sleet.
And with the passing of the sleet, an immense silence secerned to brood over us, as though we had drifted into a vacuum.
Even though it was sleeting, the inside of each small pup tent was dry and comfortable.
No, that would involve a lot of walking around outdoors, and it was still sleeting outside the window.
And now here she was, trying to keep warm in the big, wide scene of the crime, listening to sleet peck at the frosted-over windows and wind slam them around in their uncaulked sockets, trying not to think about Jay and Nicole.
But the gale had not finished, and I was awakened to the rattle of windows and the blatter of sleet on the roof.
Made brittle by constant immersion in lethal ozone baths and high-altitude acid sleets, its fuselage and wings were riddled with pinholes from micrometeorite hits and passage through volcanic dust clouds.
On the Moon, though, the surface is dangerous: big temperature swings between sunlight and shadow, ionizing radiation constantly sleeting in from the Sun and stars, micrometeoroids peppering the ground and sandpapering everything exposed to them.
Then, when the rainstorm turned to sleet, he headed back home and was interested to see firemen on the edge of a lagoon, where they were using a pulmotor on a drowned man.
The March wind was raging beyond the glass, and scattershots of rain and sleet struck the windows before his face.