Perhaps the french wiki page on 'Sleet/Ice pellets' (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grésil) can help ? If you can read the section title "Forme secondaire" I think it is enlightening on the difference between ice pellets and hail.
As I understand it (IANAM), hail is usually bigger since it circulates upwards/downwards a cumulonimbus for a while and grows with each cycle, until too heavy for the ascending currents. Ice pellets do usually not recirculate, and are made of frozen rain drops or re-frozen snow flakes. In any case: FR for hail is grêle - FR for ice pellets is grésil -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989
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