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graupel

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grau·pel  (groupl)
n.
See snow pellet.
[German Graupel, diminutive of Graupe, hulled grain, probably of Slavic origin; akin to Russian krupa, groats.]
graupel [ˈgraʊpəl]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) soft hail or snow pellets
[German, from Graupe, probably from Serbo-Croat krupa; related to Russian krupá peeled grain]
graupel  (groupl)
A small, white ice particle that falls as precipitation and breaks apart easily when it lands on a surface. Also called snow pellet, soft hail.


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and beachside residents who mistook the graupel -- broken bits of hail -- that blanketed their neighborhoods for snow.
SOCAL TURNS INTO SNOW CAL MANY COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHLAND HIT WITH ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Small hail and graupel falling below the melting level would also act to provide additional negative buoyancy via the melting process.
A thermodynamic investigation of the early afternoon wet microburst ... by Cullen, Jack / National Weather Digest
Charge separation most likely occurs during rebounding collisions between ice crystals and large ice hydrometeors (such as graupel and hail) that remain suspended in the mixed phase zone by the updraft of a growing thunderstorm.
Using WSR-88D reflectivity data for the prediction of cloud-to-ground ... by Gonski, Rod / National Weather Digest
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