According to the National Weather Service, winter storms can produce snow, freezing rain, smaller droplets of freezing drizzle, sleet (ice pellets), and graupel (snow pellets), depending on ...

Freezing rain is especially dangerous because it’s difficult to see and can quickly lead to power outages and travel disruptions. Graupel occurs when snowflakes are coated with supercooled water ...

Freezing rain begins as snow high in the atmosphere ... creating soft, pellet-like snow. Unlike sleet, graupel does not bounce when it hits the ground and has a more fragile structure.

After tracking scattered snow on Sunday morning, there's still a possibility for on-and-off rain/snow showers in the region ...

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 ...

A winter storm is expected to bring a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing drizzle across the Kansas City metro and surrounding areas, with heavier snowfall expected overnight on Wednesday. A winter storm ...

So I was confused when my colleagues threw around the word "graupel" Monday evening. The winter storm brought a mixture of this graupel along with snow, sleet and freezing rain. Here’s how to tell the ...

That could change this week, when a historic winter storm is poised to sweep across the South and into north Florida, potentially bringing a wintry mix — including rain, sleet, snow and ice ...

Rain and freezing rain are on the way later Wednesday, with all-day-long cloudy skies and temperatures in the 30s.