Water starts as snow in the frigid ... Hail is a little different. Unlike sleet or freezing rain, hail can fall any time of ...

Rain, snow, freezing rain ... so while they can seem similar without taking a close look at them, hail, sleet, and graupel are all different phenomena. Occasionally, graupel can occur when ...

From rain to snow to freezing rain ... In higher elevations bordering the metro area, snow, hail and sleet occur slightly more frequently. In Flagstaff and other high-elevation areas ...

Sleet, often mistaken for small hail, forms when snowflakes partially ... icy layer that makes roads hazardous. Freezing rain begins as snow high in the atmosphere. As it falls, it passes through ...

“A lot of people get that confused with sleet ... small pellets of hail that form when water droplets freeze over a crystal of snow. Sometimes rain encounters a layer of freezing air on its ...

Many people confuse this with hail, but they form from completely ... weather threat this weekend Forecasting snow verses sleet verses freezing rain can be a big challenge, as only a couple ...

Unlike hail— which only forms in thunderstorms—sleet is part of the ... Notice how rain has the thickest warm layer, allowing snow to completely melt before reaching the surface, while snow ...

So what differentiates snow, sleet and freezing rain? Meteorologist John Burchfield ... While the mechanisms that cause the development of sleet and hail are very different, the visual similarity ...

Freezing rain, NOAA says, happens when the layer ... Snow pellets can have characteristics of hail, sleet and snow, though they are whiter than sleet, and have air pockets inside.

When your local news channel announces a weather advisory due to sleet, hail ... Once the snow reaches the warm middle layer, it melts and becomes rain. The water freezes again when it passes ...