Therefore, weather forecasters just predict a "wintry mix".
It brought a wintry mix, including a heavy snowstorm, to eastern Canada and Maine on the 19th.
Weather conditions were a wintry mix in the area, with light snow, fog, and winds at 17 miles per hour (15 knots).
The wintry mix continued to spread northward overnight and into Friday.
It also brought a light wintry mix across the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic states on the 21st with little accumulation.
In the United States, wintry mix generally refers to a mixture of freezing rain, ice pellets, and snow.
Within the area of wintry mix, the wind combined with the ongoing snowfall led to blizzards across most of Scotland.
Much of the area received a "wintry mix" of rain, sleet, and possibly a few snowflakes on January 9-10.
Icy surfaces will be an additional hazard, including at low levels, where surfaces freeze following showers of a wintry mix.
A wintry mix of precipitation fell across southern Quebec.