Graupel is a snowflake that is laden with supercooled water droplets.
It falls to the ground as white ball-shaped precipitation.
Below is a picture of Graupel.
image from jonschrage.com
You can see how the snowflakes are full of little balls of what look like snow as well.
1 comment:
huh, that is actually pretty neat. I have probably seen graupel, but not known it :)
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