PORTLAND (WGME) --Graupel are soft, small pellets. It does look like hail, but it is different. How did they get to look like this though? Graupel begins as snow, which then falls through a layer ...

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Graupel is an unusual kind of frozen precipitation that resembles Dippin’ Dots more than snow. Graupel actually begins as ...

As the sun sets over the horizon, dark clouds sweep through the plains, covering the landscape in deep night. The rumblings ...

Here’s everything to know about Arizona’s winter precipitation — what’s most beneficial, what’s most dangerous and what’s that graupel stuff, anyway. To begin with, it rains in the winter.