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| precipitation in the form of individually frozen rain droplets |
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| when rain fall through the atmosphere with freezing temperatures and freezes and falls to the ground as sleet |
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| rain that fall to the ground and quickly freezes, forming sheets of ice |
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| precipitation in the form of chunks of ice that may vary from pea sized to the size of a grapefruit |
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| when rain droplets are lifted back up into the clouds and frozen, increasing their size; this process may happen several more times until they finnally become too heavy to be pushed back up and fall to the ground as hail |
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