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 ...

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.

If you were paying attention Tuesday afternoon, you might have noticed the tinkling of solid precipitation landing on nearby buildings. You would be forgiven for thinking it was sleet or hail, and ...

In higher elevations bordering the metro area, snow, hail and sleet occur slightly more frequently. In Flagstaff and other high-elevation areas, precipitation is a key feature in Arizona winters ...

Whether precipitation remains snow or becomes rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail or graupel by the time it reaches the ground is determined by the temperature fluctuations the snowflakes encounter ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain begin as the same thing ... Fort Worth for tornadoes is the same as thunderstorms generally. Hail, damaging winds possible as new wave of storms threatens D-FW ...

You would be forgiven for thinking it was sleet or hail, and in some areas it may well have been. But for the most part, the solid precipitation that fell on Columbus Tuesday was graupel ...