Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled. Sleet are small ice particles that form from the ...

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.

When your local news channel announces a weather advisory due to sleet, hail, or freezing rain, you may ask yourself what makes them different. They may look similar, but these types of ...

Thunderstorms often bring hail, but sometimes what's falling isn't hail at all. Here is the breakdown of the different types ...

It almost had the appearance of graupel or sleet. But this was definitely hail. Why? Thunderstorms. There was a little bit of instability in Northern Kentucky. As the cell developed near CVG ...

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 ...

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 ...