Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation: snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain or even plain old rain. Why so much variety? The answer involves temperature changes as the precipitation falls.

Hail comes in a variety of sizes, and most people don't look forward to hearing large hail is a possibility during severe ...

Liquid precipitation is rain or freezing rain ... Frozen precipitation is snow if it is crystallized and sleet if it is chunky. Hail is larger than sleet and is formed in the high tower of ...

Feb. 14—A winter storm lasting more than 24 hours this weekend is expected to deliver a sampling of everything to southern Maine: snow, sleet and freezing rain. "It's all one kind of system.

(FOX 2) - The last bit of warmth will fade fast on Thursday as some weather whiplash arrives in Southeast Michigan on the ...

transition into sleet and freezing rain overnight. The F-M metro experienced a light glaze of ice and sleet that made for slick roads before the snow moved on into Minnesota. Heavy snow and ...

The threat of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected to start Friday afternoon, with quarter-size hail and wind gusts ... be a brief period where sleet or freezing rain mixes in during the ...