While the Upstate is receiving the first winter storm in three years, Meteorologist Griffin Hardy explains the difference between snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Griffin says there is a really thin line between the three types of winter precipitation,

A winter storm had blanketed much of Arkansas in snow by Thursday evening while leaving residents in southern parts of the state coping with a mix of ice and rain.

Several inches of snow fell across Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley on Thursday and Friday in the state's first major winter storm of 2025.