Anne Burgess wrote:

Thank you for that warning. I haven't tripped over the reference yet - what
*do* the Leftpondians describe as sleet?

"Sleet" over there is a term for ice pellets. I'm afraid I don't know
what they call the mixture of rain and snow (or melting snow) that we
call sleet.
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