The NWS says sleet forms when snowflakes fall through warmer air but don't completely melt. Unlike the thin layer of freezing air near the ground that causes freezing rain, sleet needs a deeper layer ...

But no matter how many times you hear it, the difference between sleet and freezing rain can be confusing ... clouds and the ground determines the type of precipitation that hits the ground.Sleet ...

while snow remains in below-freezing air from the surface to higher altitudes. Freezing rain and sleet are the “in-between” precip types.

While Lower Michigan is in the warm part of the storm system today, that will all change by tomorrow.

The Met Office has warned rare "freezing rain" could hit Wales this weekend. The phenomenon is a rare type of liquid precipitation that strikes a cold surface before freezing almost instantly ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain – there are three main types of winter precipitation, and Oklahoma is no stranger to any of them. The winter storm that crossed Oklahoma in the early morning hours ...