The NEXT Weather team breaks down four types of precipitation and what conditions create each one.

Meteorologist Ava Marie explains how sleet and freezing rain can form amid the coldest air up above, warm air beneath that, ...

As this weekend's winter storm makes its way to Southwest Virginia, we are tracking multiple types of wintry precipitation. Learn about how difference types are precipitation are formed and how it ...

Even small differences, sometimes just a degree or two high in the atmosphere, can completely change what eventually reaches ...

Have you ever wondered why certain types of precipitation form? Well, the difference between rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow all boils down to the temperature of the atmosphere. All precipitation ...

Precipitation can take a variety of forms with each one posing its own hazards. Much of the precipitation that falls throughout the year begins as snowflakes high in the clouds. The snowflakes form as ...

When it comes to winter, the NBC10 First Alert Weather Team uses a lot of terms to describe precipitation. There’s rain, snow, sleet, even freezing rain! But why do some areas see different types of ...

Precipitation comes in all forms: rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. Some even count virga, which becomes a gas and evaporates before it reaches us as raindrops. Hail also exists but forms ...

While all forms of precipitation start as snow high up in the clouds, there are four primary types that eventually reach the ground: snow, sleet, freezing rain and plain ol' rain. Snow occurs when the ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM)- Snow is not the only type of weather to expect this season, as there are several types of winter ...

Meteorologist Elliot Wilson talks about freezing rain and how it forms. He also talks about what impacts we can expect around ...