The winter season can bring multiple types of precipitation, most notably snow and sleet. However, one precipitation type ...

How snow, sleet and freezing rain form Most precipitation that forms during a winter storm starts as snow, according to the National Weather Service, because the top layer of the storm is usually cold ...

CLEVELAND — When it comes to wintry precipitation, freezing rain can cause plenty of problems on the roads. It occurs when precipitation falls as liquid rain but freezes on contact with surfaces that ...

CLEVELAND — When cold, unstable air sweeps across the Great Lakes in fall and early winter, it can trigger lake-effect precipitation. This week, lake rain showers have streamed in with periodic bursts ...

Last weekend's winter storm served as a wonderful example of how one weather system can produce several types of wintry precipitation. Leading up to the storm, you may have noticed that many ...

Confidence is very high that next week will be especially cold across the Lone Star State after a strong cold front moves across the state on Saturday. Reinforcing cold fronts are expected to arrive ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

It rains on the Sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know why. Unlike water that falls from the sky on Earth, solar rain happens in the ...

It's looking increasingly likely that south Louisiana could get historic and potentially record-breaking amounts of snow Tuesday, but forecasters with the National Weather Service have been expecting ...