Snow, sleet and freezing rain – there are three main types of winter precipitation, and Oklahoma is no stranger to any of ...
Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation, from snow and sleet to freezing rain and plain old rain. Here's when each type falls.
The first of several rounds of snow, sleet, and freezing rain expected to occur this week are in the books. Snow began falling after 9 p.m. Tuesday. With about a half-inch to 1.5 inches of powdery ...
This messy mix of winter precipitation often impacts the region during late winter and early spring. Meteorologist John Burchfield explains what differentiates them.
A winter weather advisory is set to go into effect Wednesday night ahead of snow, sleet, ice and eventually rain that will ...
Sleet, often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes ... warm and cold air that dictate whether precipitation will fall as snow, sleet, freezing rain, or rain. For example, a shallow ...
freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Very small temperature differences over small locations can result in precipitation-type changes. While most guidance keeps most wintry precipitation northwest of ...
Sleet, often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes partially melt ... reveals layers of warm and cold air that dictate whether precipitation will fall as snow, sleet, freezing rain, or rain.
The precipitation turns into “slushy drops” that are refrozen through a thin layer of freezing air just above the surface.
Many neighborhoods around Puget Sound woke up to a fresh layer of snow on the roads on Wednesday, including downtown Seattle ...
A winter storm that brought snow, sleet and freezing rain to a large swath of the Midwest swept into the mid-Atlantic and ...