During inclement weather, you may see some ice pellets falling from the sky and wonder whether you’re seeing sleet or hail. There’s a huge difference in how those two ice types develop.

The UK weather agency, the Met Office, issues warnings from yellow, to amber, to red, depending on the severity of the ...

THE Met Office has issued a weather warning for ice tomorrow as a -1°C chill sweeps across the UK. A yellow warning covers ...

Temperatures are set to plummet in Sheffield once more, as the Met Office issues a yellow warning of ice for the region - ...

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Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation: snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain or even plain old rain. Why so much variety? The answer involves temperature changes as the precipitation falls.

MET Eireann have warned that the “fridge door opening” is set to bring a spell of -2C nights later this week. Temperatures ...

hail only occurs in blah blah blah." The sleet early this morning meant that what was supposed to be several hours of rip-roaring blizzard conditions yielding a foot or more of snow was ...

When water falls from a cloud, it is precipitation. Liquid precipitation is rain or freezing rain. If the drops are smaller ...

Frozen precipitation is snow if it is crystallized and sleet if it is chunky. Hail is larger than sleet and is formed in the high tower of a thunderstorm updraft. Finally, graupel, which looks ...