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Hereof, what are ice pellets called?

Ice pellets are a form of precipitation. Ice pellets are rain drops that have frozen before they hit the ground. When they hit the ground, they bounce. Ice pellets are also called sleet and can be accompanied by freezing rain. In winter, precipitation usually begins falling out of a cloud as ice particles.

Furthermore, why does hail form instead of snow? Hail stones fall only in a thunderstorm and do not require a freezing air temperature. When a cloud is supersaturated with water vapour and the air temperature drops below freezing point, the water vapor freezes into a nucleus and other water vapor particles stick to it to form snow.

Beside above, what is the difference between freezing rain and ice pellets?

A thicker wedge of cold air beneath the warm air refreezes the partially melted snow into ice pellets. For freezing rain to occur, the warm air layer is thicker. The snow melts into rain then refreezes just as it hits the cold ground. Sleet is made up of ice pellets that bounce off objects.

What is worse ice pellets or freezing rain?

"Freezing rain is by far the most dangerous because it forms a solid sheet of ice, as opposed to sleet that just has small ice pellets that quickly bounce off of the surface," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson said.