Sunday winter storm recap: Snow, sleet leave roads icy and flights limited in Triad

Saturday night and into Sunday morning hours, roughly 2 inches of sleet and snow fell across the Triad and High Country.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Jonathan Blaes says, that’s the good news.

“Because sleet and snow is always much better than freezing rain,” says Blaes. “The air mass is changing a little bit. We’re starting to get away from the small snow crystals that we had overnight and into more just sleet in the Triad and some of those other spots north and west. And then as the morning wears on into the early afternoon, we’ll see that sleet mix increasingly with just freezing rain.”…

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