Hail is a form of frozen precipitation.

Damage assessment was delayed considerably due to a cold front and subsequent snowstorm that brought frozen precipitation back to the Valley on January 5.

The area also received frozen precipitation, resulting in power outages across the central Ohio area.

To measure the water equivalent of frozen precipitation, a tipping bucket may be heated to melt any ice and snow that is caught in its funnel.

Winter can bring cold temperatures, frozen precipitation and, on occasions, major snowstorms.

"There is some kind of storm near the Atlantic seaboard that might give New York City some frozen precipitation," he said.

The collector, which is heated to melt any frozen precipitation such as snow or hail, funnels water into a two-chamber, pivoting container called a bucket.

Ice pellets are a type of frozen precipitation.

Again, there are exceptionsthan a trace of frozen precipitation has been recorded officially for Atlanta.

New York City's sanitation department admitted to not plowing city streets, expecting the frozen precipitation to change from ice to rain.