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

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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Graupel is often mistaken for sleet or small ...

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 ...

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

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 ...