But so do muggy heat and mosquitos, so my solution is to live in New Mexico. We do get hail in the southwest though, and there's not much more fun than a good, sudden downpour of pinto bean size hail. I admit to some secret jealousy at never having experienced the baseball-size stuff. It is found on the cold side of a warm front, where the surface temperatures are at or just below freezing.
Freezing rain can result in ice storms.
We see these on the Weather Channel happening in other, less fortunate parts of the country. Freezing rain actually starts out as falling snow that hits a layer of warm air on the way down that causes it to melt and become rain. Then it passes through a thin layer of cold air that supercools it. When the drops strike frozen surfaces they freeze, forming a thin layer of ice. Less common and more visible than freezing rain is sleet, which is frozen raindrops that bounce upon impact with a hard surface.