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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — As we dive into the cooler months, there's always that chance we can see rain, snow, sleet or even freezing rain as the days start to get colder. But there's a reason why we could end ...

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, ...

Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation: snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain or even plain old rain. Why so much variety? The answer involves temperature changes as the precipitation falls.

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 ...

After record-breaking rain in Death Valley, a shallow lake has formed at Badwater Basin, the national park said. 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 ...