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You won't see a lot of "wintery mix" in Phoenix this winter, but you could find rain, hail and something called "graupel." ...
Graupel is a unique type of precipitation, also referred to as soft hail or snow pellets. We will follow the journey of precipitation falling to the surface to understand how it forms. High above ...
However, most of the time, when desert dwellers believe they see snow in the wintertime, it's not snow — it's graupel. According to Ted Whittock, a meteorologist with the National Weather ...
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — If you’ve ever seen that hail or sleet-like snow that resembles little pebbles or rocks, then you’ve seen graupel. This little-recognized form of precipitation is ...
With temperatures in the low 50s, this is a graupel and/or hail mixture, not snow. If it’s soft/wet, it’s graupel. If it’s hard/solid, it’s hail,” officials said on Twitter. Have ...
This is not hail, nor is it sleet. This is what is known as graupel. So how do these hail lookalikes form and what makes them special? In the video above, Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs explains the ...
It was a mixture of hail and graupel ― two kinds of small, pellet-like frozen droplets. So, what is graupel, and what makes it different from hail? Here's what to know. What is graupel?
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Graupel is a weather phenomenon that often gets mistaken for snow, but it’s actually quite different. Sometimes referred to as “ice pellets,” graupel has a distinct texture ...
It was graupel. The system that passed through the Denver metro and Palmer Divide on Tuesday night was a mixture of snow, rain and hail, but once it was on the ground, it looked more like Dippin ...