View Full Document. Ice Pellets Ice pellets (also called sleet) are refrozen snowflakes. They occur when a layer of air aloft is warm enough (> 0 ï° C) to melt snowflakes into raindrops but the air near the ground is cold enough to freeze the drops.
acarid - very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks. 1  mite - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods. 2  Acaridae, family Acaridae - mites.
An ACD is a special type of dismissal of criminal charges, set forth in N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 170.55. It applies in misdemeanor cases, and may be entered at any time before the defendant pleads guilty or the criminal trial commences.