What is the difference between sleet and hail?

Certain hail can get as large as golf balls, softballs or even larger! The largest hailstone ever found was in Vivian, S.D., it weighed 1.9 pounds and measured 8 inches in diameter with an 18.5-inch circumference. Sleet. Sleet occurs during winter weather and is a type of winter precipitation. All precipitation falls out of a cloud as snow. read more

About six months. Hail occurs in warm weather, while sleet occurs during cold weather. read more

Hail is formed during summer time mostly and Sleet is formed during winter. Both falls from the sky ie. they precipitate down to earth but the difference is that. Sleet starts as Snow flakes then melts to form water droplets but on subsequently passing cold air in the sky, it re freezes into small ice pellets. read more