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 ...

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 ...

ARKANSAS, USA — Storms with up to 70 mph winds, baseball-size hail, and heavy rains hit the area on May 18. The weather began early Sunday morning and continued into the late afternoon, with the ...

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.

Sleet is typically accompanied by a tapping sound ... Graupel, also known as “soft hail” or “snow pellets,” is formed differently. It starts as a snowflake but collects supercooled water ...

"It is sort of like the mail. Rain, sleet, snow or hail we are going to show up," Captain Jason Weaver, public information officer at the Little Rock Fire Department said. Whether it is snow and ...

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 ...