Word: sleeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forecast. In St. Louis, Space Cadet Harold Buren, 9, projecting a trip to the moon in 1970, asked the local weather bureau for a prediction, was informed: "No rain, no hail, no sleet. High daytime temperature, 250°; low nighttime temperature...
Snowballs, rather than the usual Cambridge sleet and snow, pelted automobiles and pedestrians passing Massachusetts Avenue early yesterday afternoon. The firing station, manned by two young Cantabrigians, was the roof of the empty building between the Harvard Book Store and the Harvard Automobile Company...
...mile-per-hour winds will whip through Cambridge until early evening on the tail of yesterday's sleet storm, the weather bureau predicted last night. The rain should end by early morning, follows by more snow and sleet...
...bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French stretch from Le Puy to Valence...
Connecticut state police reported that rain and freezing sleet fell over most of the Merrit Parkway throughout the night. Some traffic was being transferred to route one. However, they said that the road would be well sanded and open to all traffic today...