On a cold day, you go outside after a rainstorm and find pellets of ice on the ground. The pellets are all around 3 millimeters in diameter.Which type of precipitation are these pellets?

Sleet is made of small ice pellets that form when raindrops freeze before reaching the ground. Pellets about 3 millimeters across fit sleet; hailstones are typically larger and form in thunderstorms. The correct choice is sleet.

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