Rain is something Floridians are used to seeing, but snow is quite a bit more rare. How exactly does freezing rain differ from regular snow?

Unlike hail or sleet, graupel is soft and can be crushed easily in your hand, and is sometimes called "soft hail." It is also usually smaller than hail, with a diameter of around 0.08-0.2 inches.

As Houstonians wake up to a rare winter storm blanketing the area, many are experiencing unfamiliar weather phenomena. Sleet and graupel, two types of icy precipitation, are often confused for one ...

Sleet forms when raindrops fall through a larger layer of freezing air, allowing the rain to refreeze into small ice pellets before reaching the ground.

CBS News Texas As a winter storm bears down on North Texas, the CBS News Texas First Alert Weather team is warning of freezing rain, sleet, and frigid wind chills that could bring travel to a ...

How do snow, sleet and freezing rain differ? Here's how they could impact Louisiana.

Precipitation equivalent to more than one inch of rain will fall across Massachusetts this weekend, but it will take various forms — frozen and unfrozen — depending on location and time.

Snow, sleet, and freezing rain are coming to Metro Detroit on Monday, all with accumulation. Here's when it's coming, where each will happen, and how much to expect.

The National Weather Service defines a "wintry mix" as precipitation that could include snow, sleet, freezing rain or some combination of all three at different times.