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The correct answer is Sleet. 🌨️

Here’s why:

Snow forms directly from ice crystals in clouds and never melts before reaching the ground.

Hail is produced inside strong thunderstorms, where raindrops are carried upward by powerful updrafts and freeze into large balls of ice.

Sleet (also called frozen rain) happens when raindrops partially melt while falling through a warm layer of air, then refreeze into small ice pellets before hitting the ground.

Think of sleet as rain that changes its mind mid-fall — starting liquid, then freezing again into tiny pellets.