Sleet bounces off objects while freezing rain instantly freezes on contact with an object. Sleet is not to be confused with hail. Hail happens during the summer months within a thunderstorm cloud.

Sleet is a type of precipitation that can occur during winter storms. Temperatures are very cold near the base of clouds during winter weather. So, when precipitation falls, it starts off as snow.

Sleet develops similarly to snow with ice crystals falling from cold winter clouds. The difference comes from a thin layer of warmer air in the atmosphere that partially melts snowflakes as they ...

The forecast is calling for a variety of precipitation on Wednesday in the Carolinas, including rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. The latest forecast is in the video player above.

As sleet falls from a cloud, it starts its descent as a snowflake, hits a warm layer, causing it to partially melt and then it refreezes before reaching the ground.

Sleet forms as rain that refreezes on its way to the ground, but hail takes shape within the clouds. Hail forms in the colder portions of clouds with strong updrafts.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Clouds thicken with snow and sleet developing after midnight, changing to freezing rain towards morning. A coating to 2" of snow/sleet and a glaze of ice. Low: 25 After a bright ...

DALLAS — Forecasting precipitation types—snow, sleet, freezing rain, or a mix—is notoriously challenging in North Texas. Imagine the journey of an ice particle as it falls from the clouds to ...

Snow, sleet , ice accumulations. Snow and sleet accumulations will range from a coating to 2". Freezing rain will amount to a glaze to 0.10". Temperatures will still be near freezing early Sunday ...