Thunderstorms often bring hail, but sometimes what's falling isn't hail at all. Here is the breakdown of the different types ...

With temperatures in the low 50s, this is a graupel and/or hail mixture, not snow. If it’s soft/wet, it’s graupel. If it’s hard/solid, it’s hail,” officials said on Twitter. Have ...

Occurrence of graupel and hail can fall in those areas due to snow and rain but there’s a difference between the two. According to the National Weather Service, graupel is snow that melts and ...

It was a mixture of hail and graupel ― two kinds of small, pellet-like frozen droplets. So, what is graupel, and what makes it different from hail? Here's what to know. What is graupel?

This is not hail, nor is it sleet. This is what is known as graupel. So how do these hail lookalikes form and what makes them special? In the video above, Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs explains the ...

If you were paying attention Tuesday afternoon, you might have noticed the tinkling of solid precipitation landing on nearby buildings. You would be forgiven for thinking it was sleet or hail, and ...

Sawtelle explained graupel as water that accumulates on snow above the ground, then freezes and creates a small frozen mass. It looks sort of like small hail, but with numerous pellets.

Muggy conditions have moved farther west in the wake of yesterday's strong thunderstorms across New Mexico with ...

But was it hail that covered some Mainers’ lawns – or was it really graupel? Let’s discuss. The American Meteorological Society definition of graupel reads: Heavily rimed snow particles, ...

You would be forgiven for thinking it was sleet or hail, and in some areas it may well have been. But for the most part, the solid precipitation that fell on Columbus Tuesday was graupel ...