A type of winter precipitation formed by packed snow flakes or ice crystals after riming has given it the appearance of small soft hail. Otherwise known as snow pellets.
A lightly rimed ice aggregate often found in vigorous storms. Formed when an ice aggregate collects supercooled liquid water droplets.
A form of precipitation which looks like round pellets. Graupel is subject to rolling and can collect in pockets. It can also form a layer with a great deal of pore space and poor bonding. The pellets themselves are snowflakes which accumulated rime ice as they fell through certain atmospheric layers
A type of precipitation that consists of a snow crystal and a raindrop frozen together.
snowflakes that become rounded pellets due to riming. Typical sizes are two to five millimeters in diameter (0.1 to 0.2 inches). Graupel is sometimes mistaken for hail.
more info Heavely rimed new snow. Often shaped like little Styrofoam balls.
Small pellets of ice created when supercooled water droplets coat, or rime, a snowflake. The pellets are cloudy or white, not clear like sleet, and often are mistaken for hail.
Ice particles between 2 and 5 millimeters in diameter that form in a cloud often by the process of accretion. Snowflakes that become rounded pellets due to riming are called "graupel" or "snow pellets".
snow pellets or soft sleet
Precipitation formed when water droplets freeze in layers around a falling ice crystal.
Same as snow pellets or small hail.
snowflakes that become rounded pellets due to riming; typical sizes are 2 to 5 millimeters in diameter (0.1 to 0.2 inch); graupel is sometimes mistaken for hail.
Heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except for the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm. Sometimes distinguished by shape into conical, hexagonal, and lump (irregular) graupel.
A form of frozen precipitation consisting of snowflakes or ice crystals and supercooled water droplets frozen together. Related term: snow pellets
Graupel (also called snow pellets) refers to precipitation that forms when freezing fog condenses on a snowflake, forming a 2–5 mm ball of rime ice; the snowflake acts as a nucleus of condensation in this process. The term is derived from http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Graupel German "Graupel" meaning "freezing rain" or "soft hail". Graupel does not include other frozen precipitation such as snow or ice crystals.
