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Old June 07, 2017, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by poli View Post
Alec,
In English aguanieve is sleet.
I looked it up in the dictionary and it has a wider definition of what I know as aguanieve, that is made of a mix of partially melted snow flakes with cold rain drops.

But sleet also gives a name to something I don't know how it's called in Spanish but I have to suffer almost every winter: nasty drizzle that barely wets the ground (garúa) but frozen because of the low temperatures. The wind pushes it merciless onto one's face, which will become eczema-like. To that, I say and I add .

This talk makes me because Winter is about to start and night frosts are increasingly closer.
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