With the Houston area in the frigid grip of a rare winter storm, it may seem like only snow and sleet are falling across the region. But forecasters say there's more to winter precipitation than meets ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

When the rain encounters a deep enough layer of below-freezing air near the ground, it refreezes into tiny, hard pellets. Graupel vs sleet ... as “soft hail” or “snow pellets,” is ...

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 ...

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 ...