People in Massachusetts woke up to ... Massachusetts is expected to see about 1 inch of rain, with the possibility of some brief freezing rain and icing, the National Weather Service said.

The National Weather Service in an alert early Monday warned that rain, snow and freezing rain that fell overnight from Anchorage north to the Matanuska Valley could make for slick roads.

Sleet is formed when snow falls into a warmer layer of air with temperatures above freezing. This causes the snowflakes to melt into rain. The rain droplets then fall into another deep cold layer ...