Rain and snow mixed or
sleet is
precipitation composed of
rain and partially melted
snow. Unlike
ice pellets, which are hard, and
freezing rain, which is fluid until striking an object, this precipitation is soft and
translucent, but it contains some traces of
ice crystals, from partially fused snowflakes. In any one location, it usually occurs briefly as a transition phase from rain to snow or vice versa. Its
METAR code is
RASN.