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.

Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs has explained the factors leading to the development of numerous precipitation types, like rain ...

The system is producing snow, sleet, ice and hail across much of northern Minnesota. A rare severe thunderstorm warning was ...

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 a thunderstorm updraft. Finally, graupel, which looks ...