Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled. Sleet are small ice particles that form from the ...

Stay in a covered area while hail is coming down. Hailstones one inch in diameter or greater often result in property damage ...

NORFOLK, Va. — 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 ...

When your local news channel announces a weather advisory due to sleet, hail, or freezing rain, you may ask yourself what ...

Thunderstorms often bring hail, but sometimes what's falling isn't hail at all. Here is the breakdown of the different types ...

You would be forgiven for thinking it was sleet or hail, and in some areas it may well have been. But for the most part, the solid precipitation that fell on Columbus Tuesday was graupel ...

It almost had the appearance of graupel or sleet. But this was definitely hail. Why? Thunderstorms. There was a little bit of instability in Northern Kentucky. As the cell developed near CVG ...

MET Eireann has warned there's a "chance of hail and sleet" for many areas as temperatures plunge to -1C tonight. Forecaster Matthew Martin said sunshine and scattered showers are expected today ...