Have you ever wondered why certain types of precipitation form? Well, the difference between rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow all boils down to the temperature of the atmosphere. All precipitation ...

The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present ...

Snow is the classic of any winter precipitation and forms when temperatures are at or below freezing in the cloud and at to ...

When it comes to winter, the NBC10 First Alert Weather Team uses a lot of terms to describe precipitation. There’s rain, snow, sleet, even freezing rain! But why do some areas see different types of ...

It’s Winter Weather Awareness Week in Alabama and The Weather Authority is bringing you information on how you can keep you ...

Precipitation comes in all forms: rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. Some even count virga, which becomes a gas and evaporates before it reaches us as raindrops. Hail also exists but forms ...

SAN ANTONIO — It's that time of year when many storm systems roll through and we see several types of precipitation, like snow, freezing rain and sleet. The temperature throughout the atmosphere and ...

Forecasting wintry precipitation is a challenge. Knowing how we get rain, ice or snow takes an understanding of the vertical profile of the atmosphere. You not only need to know the temperature at the ...

This weekend may preview the upcoming seasonal change with the development of graupel: soft and crushable ice pellets.

Winter precipitation is a diverse and not always clear-cut category. You know a snowflake when you see one, but what about sleet versus hail? Even more confusing is graupel, another form of icy rain ...