A new word — graupel — worked into Weather Stories during the past week, notes Grumpy Editor.
It’s a German word referring to soft hail or snow pellets.
It forms when supercooled water droplets in the air freeze on falling snowflakes.
Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets in both formation and appearance. However, both hail and graupel are common in thunderstorms with cumulonimbus clouds.
Got that?
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