Sleet is basically crunchy snow. Very slightly larger, a bit harder, not really a danger to much of anything it falls on. You don’t get golf ball sized sleet, you get like, half-a-pea-sized sleet.

Hail is precip that has been able to repeatedly rise and fall on air currents, building up in size. What they’re referring to as sleet is essentially just crunchy snow in size and texture.

Does addiction excuse the abuse, or merely explain it?

IDK Ozzy actively tried to kill Sharon, that seems pretty abusive.