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"Ice pellets are smaller than hailstones which form in thunderstorms rather than in winter"
You can get thunderstorms in winter as well. Is this sentence intending to mean that ice pellets only form in winter (and not from thunderstorms), as opposed to hail that can form in thunderstorms regardless of season?
Iapetus (
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12:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Alternative title in lead
Famartin, please read
MOS:ALTNAME. Per the sources I've added to the article, sleet is clearly a significant alternative name for ice pellets, and therefore should be in the lead section. Per
MOS:LEADCLUTTER, a separate section for alternative names is only necessary if there are more than two. Please restore my changes.
AdA&D14:57, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
There is an article for sleet to describe the various usages of the term, and there has been *SO* much back and forth from so many others saying "no, I'm in America and I don't consider ice pellets to be sleet", it *DOES NOT* need to be in the lead. The term has proven very contentious among editors here.
Famartin (
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17:05, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
British usage
Certainly we call ice pellets hail in Britain, whatever the size of the pellets. We use the term sleet for the mixture of snow and rain with or without pellets. This latter is a very common form of precipitation during British winters. I've never heard the term ice pellets used here. Moving on, I think the first sentence is an awful piece of communication -- far, far too long. I would like to see hail and ice pellets at the top as equivalent terms, and shorter sentences all through.
Macdonald-ross (
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09:20, 2 February 2019 (UTC)reply
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Famartin Perhaps that's the issue? People in the UK rarely encounter ice pellets, and the effects appear to be similar to hailstones, so a weather forecast here would just call them hail? There is a definition of "ice pellets" on the Met Office site [1], so that is the term they would use if they wished to distinguish them.
I changed "Commonwealth English" to "Canadian English" in the lead, anyway, as this matches a dictionary, and I wouldn't want someone to think that the average British person would know that "ice pellets" are to do with weather.
Aoeuidhtns (
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21:50, 29 April 2024 (UTC)reply