This messy mix of winter precipitation often impacts the region during late winter and early spring. Meteorologist John Burchfield explains what differentiates them.

A winter storm that brought snow, sleet and freezing rain to a large swath of the Midwest swept into the mid-Atlantic and ...

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.

The BriefThe rare snow storm that has swept across the Florida Panhandle has brought winter weather to the Sunshine State from snow to sleet and freezing rain.What causes this winter weather, and what ...

often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes partially melt as they fall through a layer of above-freezing air and then refreeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground. Sleet bounces on ...

Sleet, often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes partially ... icy layer that makes roads hazardous. Freezing rain begins as snow high in the atmosphere. As it falls, it passes through ...

How exactly does freezing rain differ from regular snow? Here’s what to know. A National Weather Service graphic illustrates how snow turns into sleet, freezing rain and rain. If snow is what ...

When the sleet reaches the ground, it’s a bit springier than freezing rain or snow, but it can accumulate just like snow would. Snow is what happens when precipitation freezes. Snowflakes are ...

When the sleet reaches the ground, it’s a bit springier than freezing rain or snow, but it can accumulate just like snow would. Snow is what happens when precipitation freezes. Snowflakes are ...