GRAUPEL is what happens when snowflakes become coated in ice. Graupel isn’t hard like hail but isn’t soft like fluffy snowflakes, in fact, it’s similar in composition to Dippin\b… ...

Graupel will either simply land on the surface like snow or break apart fairly easily if you touch it. Their formation process is also different, with sleet being the result of snow melting and ...

While hail only happens in thunderstorms, graupel is versatile enough to show up in both types of storms. It’s more common in ...

Graupel, which is a kind of hybrid frozen precipitation, is sometimes referred to as “snow pellets.” The National Weather Service defines graupel as small pellets of ice created when super ...

If you look at the video below, many people in Southern California wondered out loud, "is it hailing or is this sleet or graupel." Hail: It falls from the sky as pellets of ice. The size can range ...

The unusually cold weather hitting California has introduced a new word to many: graupel. That, meteorologists say, is the term for the frozen precipitation reported Wednesday in parts of the ...