This messy mix of winter precipitation often impacts the region during late winter and early spring. Meteorologist John Burchfield explains what differentiates them.
When it comes to weather forecasting many of us probably know it isn't an exact science, as there are just too many variables ...
Snow typically falls as light, fluffy flakes when the air is dry, but wet, heavy snow occurs when moisture levels are higher. Sleet, often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes ... roads ...
Of all the precipitation types, freezing rain is by most measures the worst because it can weigh heavily on trees and power ...
A normal atmosphere gets snow, but sometimes changes in temperatures at different layers can cause sleet or freezing rain.
Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation, from snow and sleet to freezing rain and plain old rain. Here's when each ...
With the messy division between above and below freezing temperatures parked over Tallahassee in the peak of the storm, the maddening minute-to-minute flips between rain, sleet, snow, freezing ...
Current predictions call for rain Saturday but no snow, sleet or wintry mix for most of ... which manages the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research, polar ...
"It is sort of like the mail. Rain, sleet, snow or hail we are going to show up," Captain Jason Weaver, public information officer at the Little Rock Fire Department said. Whether it is snow and ...
Snow typically falls as light, fluffy flakes when the air is dry, but wet, heavy snow occurs when moisture levels are higher. Sleet, often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes partially ...