Familiarizing yourself with these terms may help you identify winter storm dangers:

Freezing rain – Rain that freezes when reaching ground and creates a layer of ice on the streets, sidewalks, trees and power lines.

Hail Rain that turns into small balls of ice before hitting the ground. Hail also causes the streets to freeze and get slippery.

Blizzard watch A blizzard in the area is possible.

Blizzard Warning A blizzard is taking place or will take place soon in the area.
Blizzard Sustained winds or a frequent gust of 35 miles per hour or more and considerable snow that falls or blows (which reduces visibility to less than a quarter of a mile) are expected to prevail for a period of three hours or more.
Frost warning Subzero temperatures are expected.