It rarely gets sleet or freezing rain. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. The weather got progressively worse, turning from drizzle to rain to sleet and snow. Other forms of winter precipitation include ice, sleet, and freezing rain. Jack Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. Snow, sleet, and freezing rain are all common in the winter months. Warm fronts, sleet, and freezing rain are practically nonexistent here. The weather was cold and later changed to sleet and snow. Latour, moving along muddy forest trails amid snow and sleet squalls, fell badly behind schedule. Rainfall is average with sometimes hail, sleet and rarely snow takes place. Hail, sleet, snow, and wind may cause material failure. A harsh winter would batter the emigrants with flash floods, sleet, and snow. This prevents roads from becoming too congested with snow or sleet. Ice and sleet storms occasionally occur during this timeframe. The Americans marched in sleet and snowfall.