Most precipitation this time of year begins as snow, but it doesn't always end up as the white stuff. As that snow continues to fall and hits an area that's above freezing, the snow melts into a ...

Here's an explanation of how freezing rain and sleet form. Sleet forms in winter storms, while hail is a warm-season type of precipitation. Snow occurs when the atmosphere is "cold" all the way from ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — This time of year, the seasonal changes are tricky. Temperatures are switching between warm and cold. Precipitation changes between rain and snow. Though we mainly focus on whether ...

NORFOLK, Va. — During inclement weather, you may see some ice pellets falling from the sky and wonder whether you’re seeing sleet or hail. There’s a huge difference in how those two ice types develop.

How snow, sleet and freezing rain form Most precipitation that forms during a winter storm starts as snow, according to the National Weather Service, because the top layer of the storm is usually cold ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Tuesday afternoon, a weak disturbance moving across Texas brought some much needed rain to the region, but also something a little unexpected – sleet! You may be wondering how and why ...

Ian, once inland, went post-tropical. This indicates that it no longer had a warm center, but a cold center to it - like most inland storm systems do. Once heavy rain began falling in the high country ...

There are four basic types of precipitation we see in the winter - rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. The type of precipitation we see is caused by the difference in temperature between the base of ...