We can not continue the outdoor work because it is raining (sleeting) now.
It was sleeting hard.
By then, wireless recharging will be heralded as a convenient, painless way to keep going, even if it's sleeting outside.
They wear white, full-body jumpsuits with snug-fitting hoods that provide scant protection from the invisible radiation sleeting through their bodies.
When a massive star ends its life, it does so with a bang: a supernova, which sends death sleeting across space in the form of high-energy radiation.