Freezing rain will fall in 15 states. Here are the cities that will get icy. The latest winter storm will bring more ice than snow. Find out where the worst of it will hit.

"Freezing rain occurs when the layer of freezing air is so thin that the raindrops do not have enough time to freeze before reaching the ground," according to the NWS office in Blacksburg, Va.

Here's an explanation of how freezing rain and sleet form. Sleet forms in winter storms, while hail is a warm-season type of precipitation. Snow occurs when the atmosphere is "cold" all the way ...

Freezing rain occurs when snow falls into a pocket of warmer air, where it melts, before reaching a thin layer of freezing-cold air near the Earth’s surface. When it lands, the raindrops ...

Freezing rain can cause dangerous travel conditions even in small amounts, according to the NWS. What is sleet? Sleet happens when snowflakes are only partially melted in a shallow layer of warmer ...

Heavy freezing rain is mixing with sleet, especially from the city and spots to the north – wherever temperatures are just above or below freezing. A mix of sleet, snow and freezing rain is ...

11 p.m. Update: Freezing rain transitions to snow around 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. in the Portland-metro area. Another half inch to one inch of new snow is expected to accumulate on Friday morning. That ...

Even though this may sound more hazardous than freezing rain, that's not the case. "Freezing rain is by far the most dangerous because it forms a solid sheet of ice, as opposed to sleet that just ...

When the sleet reaches the ground, it’s a bit springier than freezing rain or snow, but it can accumulate just like snow would. What is snow? Snow is what happens when precipitation freezes.