Jeff Lowe

More than five decades of hands grated by cracks. Whole body aching from long days of big-wall hauling. Tiny tents, bivy sacs, snow caves lashed by hurricane sleet. Frozen fingers and toes. Migraines and altitude malaise. Not knowing what's to come. It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

American Athlete

Ellie Kemper

What's shocking to me is seeing people walking around with green juices in their hand when the weather's bad in New York. I couldn't think of anything more awful to have when it's sleeting outside. Like, 'Oh, I'm craving some liquified kale right now.

American Actress

Fat Joe

I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.

American Musician

Dean Karnazes

When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.

Joel Silver

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

American Producer

Peyton Hillis

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

Sleet suggests unpleasant, cold weather. Understanding its use is key for discussing winter conditions.

Weather Description

Sleet often carries negative connotations, indicating discomfort and inconvenience.

Negative Connotation

Sleet usually occurs in late autumn or winter. Recognize it to discuss seasonal weather patterns.

Seasonal Weather

Describing sleet as an action can indicate the start or end of sleet falling, which is useful for telling stories.

Action Description

The verb form can show unexpected weather changes, useful for surprise or inconvenience.

Sudden Weather Change

Use the verb form of sleet when discussing weather predictions or reports.

Forecast Language

 every everyone you come across down there says that you know you can see four seasons in a day and it is absolutely true you don't really know quite how to prepare when you go out in the morning I mean it can be a sunny day but you know you never forget at least four layers in case you know sleet storm unleashes out of nowhere and the wind of course down there is you know a huge

Four Seasons in a Day PIPE...

 he brought us granola, and he brought us tissue. And we needed tissue because we had just walked through a nor'easter; it was 29 degrees, it was sleeting on our faces. Our sneakers and our socks were frozen and wet and frozen again. We needed that tissue more than he could have possibly understood. So on that day, in that moment,

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 mostly by microbes. The ocean drives climate and weather, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet and snow, and provides home for about 97 percent of life in the world,

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 operating astronaut it was just the enemy everything between this and teeny-weeny we can't see it we don't know where it is so it's a sleet a sleet of very fast-moving stuff with closing speeds of maybe um you know one to two miles per second

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 climate and weather stabilizes temperature shapes Earth's chemistry water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the sea is rain sleet and snow and provides home for about 97% of life in the world maybe in

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 It started sleeting on those same aspen trees. I think we were probably the only people in the wilderness in this time in February. We had to do what's called this all terrain skiing which is sort of a hybrid

National Geographic...

 camera what we call icons you can click on these and pictures come up with stories of different people in the area this is a family that sleet that fled Darfur into eastern Chad you see here

Exploring Google Earth PIPE...

 for us well we are still with the beautiful honey badger and yes well as sleet in the head and as we all should well know and how it is disturbing to see but some reptiles when they are dead

Safari Live - Day 230 PIPE...

 an hour winds for a few hours it's rough i love this photo of a bunch of penguins right after a blasting sleet storm the poor guy on the left doesn't know what hit him and the others

Alone on the Ice: The...

 climate and weather regulates stabilizes temperature shapes Earth's chemistry water evaporates from the surface of the sea forms clouds the return water to land Nancy his rain sleet