graupel

Example Sentences

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As showers shift south, high pressure is expected to build in the atmosphere above, creating conditions for potential lightning and graupel with the development of stronger showers in the afternoon, the weather service said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

The negatively charged graupel are heavier, so they fall toward the bottom of the cloud.

From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2023

Was the white stuff found near the Hollywood sign on Thursday snow — or graupel or accumulated hail?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023

By Friday morning, Eric Boldt, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, could confirm it had been graupel, which he defined as “basically snowflakes wrapped in ice.”

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023

In Sacramento, the state capital, the weather service said it had received reports of something that might be either hail or graupel — soft, wet snowflakes encased in supercooled water droplets.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023