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> There are no words for this slush-like substance that falls from the sky, sometimes as small clumps but other times in clumps large enough that you can hear t
by juki 9y ago
> There are no words for this slush-like substance that falls from the sky, sometimes as small clumps but other times in clumps large enough that you can hear them hit the ground.
That sounds like what we call "räntä" in Finland, which, according to Wikipedia, is called "sleet" in Commonwealth countries.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_and_snow_mixed#Terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_and_snow_mixed#Terminolog...
- e12e 9y ago"Sludd" in Norwegian, "sleet" in English - but I wouldn't use either to describe what sounds like "wet hail": > other times in clumps large enough that you can hear them hit the ground. ... Just for (very) wet snow.
- KGIII 9y agoRight. It clumps together when it falls, so it is like a lightly packed wet snowball when it reaches the surface. I typed out a bit more of a description in my response to their same post. I'm not really sure what to call it?
- KGIII 9y agoDefinitely not what we call sleet. These are balls of slush, not liquid but slush. They'll have varied sizes, weights, and consistency. Sleet, here, is more like frozen rain. Picture nearly melted snowflakes, on the verge of melting - so that they are almost translucent. Now, clump them together, somewhere in the atmosphere. Sometimes, the clumps will have a diameter of as many as six centimeters, but that's pretty rare. Usually, they are only two to four centimeters. Those fall out of the sky. Usually, I will see that just a couple of times per season. Some years, I don't see it at all. It really depends and it only happens when the conditions are just right. My elevation is about 925 meters. I'm a bit above the 45°, the meridian. I usually get about 3.75 meters of snow, per season, (I converted it to metric for you.) I've never seen snow quite like it elsewhere. I'm sure it exists elsewhere, but I've never seen it.