In the United States, "'wintry mix "'generally refers to a mixture of freezing rain, ice pellets, and snow.
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Winter storm systems, such as Alberta clippers and Panhandle hooks, can bring days of heavy freezing rain, ice pellets, and snowfall.
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Compressed air is delivered in one hose, and ice pellets are sucked out of a second hose by the venturi effect.
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Tiny dry ice pellets can be used to fight fire by both cooling fuel and suffocating the fire by excluding oxygen.
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Indications at the time were still mainly that of a rainfall event with ice pellets and some wet snow mixed in.
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Ice pellets form when a layer of above-freezing air is located between above the ground, with sub-freezing air both above and below it.
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If the cold air layer is too thick, the droplets refreeze before hitting the ground and form ice pellets, which are usually less hazardous.
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Ice pellets and snow will glaze parts of northwest Texas and western Oklahoma as a wedge of cold air knifes under moist Gulf air.
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The storm hit Newfoundland late Monday afternoon and gathered strength through the night, dumping up to a foot of snow, freezing rain and ice pellets.
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Before the storm, meteorologists predicted falls of a mixture of snow, ice pellets and freezing rain from two storm systems from Texas and the Great Lakes.
