When it comes to weather forecasting many of us probably know it isn't an exact science, as there are just too many variables ...

It’s a common question during the cooler months during a messy winter storm. Freezing rain and ice pellets are underrated ...

Graupel is a type of precipitation that resembles small, soft pellets of snow formed when supercooled water droplets freeze onto snowflakes, Lanza wrote. Regular snow is an ice crystal that falls ...

Sometimes referred to as “ice pellets,” graupel has a distinct texture that ... freeze onto a snow crystal in a process known as riming.” This process occurs when snowflakes collect these ...

Water vapor in the air condenses into ice crystals, which combine to form snowflakes ... lead to power outages and travel disruptions. Graupel occurs when snowflakes are coated with supercooled ...

Water vapor in the air condenses into ice crystals, which combine to form snowflakes ... s difficult to see and can quickly lead to power outages and travel disruptions. Graupel occurs when snowflakes ...

falling as quite literally an ice pellet. Graupel happens when you get water droplets that are still liquid below 32°, (or what is called “supercooled”). The supercooled water droplets collide with ...

Almost all precipitation that falls during the cold season starts life high in the sky as snow. Ice crystals grow in the clouds where water vapour deposits onto impurities such as dust or pollutants.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - During the winter and early spring, you may notice a type of precipitation called graupel ...