# Questions about sleet **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 19, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-sleet/933294 "2021-02-19T16:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
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> [@What do you call a single drop of sleet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-single-drop-of-sleet/847855/17): > > This may be why American forecasters are using that term “wintry mixture” which is new to me. We already have a term for it:sleet. I don’t think I heard the term “wintry mix” until fairly recently (within the last two decades at least). ‘Sleet’ was always one of those words I saw in print more often than I heard anyone actually use it, and I wondered what it was as a kid. Its lack of popular use (compared to ‘snow’, ‘hail’, and ‘rain’) and uncertainty of meaning may be why ‘wintry mix’ has come about here. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-sleet/933294)._