As the flakes fall ... a key difference between graupel and sleet,” explains weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman. “Sleet is precipitation that starts as snow, melts completely while ...

Graupel, also referred to as snow pellets, is different from snowflakes, sleet, and freezing rain. They’re ice particles, usually about the size of a pea, and they require very specific weather ...

Global warming could transform Hokkaido’s iconic powdered snow into the wet flakes found on Japan ... the percentage of rimed crystals and graupel, or soft hail, which are formed when ...

The weather phenomenon wasn’t snow, it wasn’t rain and it wasn’t exactly hail either. It was graupel. The system that passed through the Denver metro and Palmer Divide on Tuesday night was a ...

whereas graupel must be below that threshold. Sleet is another form of frozen precipitation, typically occurring when snow melts as it falls toward the ground. That water droplet then refreezes ...