"There's a key difference between graupel and sleet,” explains weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman. “Sleet is precipitation that starts as snow, melts completely while falling ...

Whether precipitation remains snow or becomes rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail or graupel by the time it reaches the ground is determined by the temperature fluctuations the snowflakes encounter ...

During the winter, our main four types of precipitation are rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Each type is formed by different conditions and has different impacts, so lets dive into them.

While the article title says "looking ahead" to the first snow of the season, Louisville has technically already seen its first snow! Yep, this past Tuesday, graupel was observed with hail and ...

FARGO — Fall can bring us all types of precipitation: from rain to snow and everything ... just the powdered sugar, snow ...