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

The texture of the snow (light, heavy, wet or fluffy) is dependent on the exact temperature and the moisture in the atmosphere. Yes, this is a real thing. Thunder sleet, occurs when sleet mixes ...

As a winter storm bears down on North Texas, the CBS News Texas First Alert Weather team is warning of freezing rain, sleet ... used to describe what the air temperature feels like to the human ...

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

“Mainly a wet snow, maybe some sleet, but mostly frozen. But that’s going to lead to accumulations to 2-3, isolated 4-inch totals or higher in the higher peaks of the North Georgia mountains ...

the melted snowflake doesn't have time to refreeze into a sleet pellet. Instead, it falls to the ground as a liquid, but with a temperature below freezing. This is called freezing rain.

The 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.