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

“And multiple showers will just follow to rain. We’ll only be concerned about maybe a few snowflakes and graupel, smaller than hail, during the nighttime overnight hours.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

With temperatures in the low 50s, this is a graupel and/or hail mixture, not snow.

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

As these icy particles bump into one another, they transfer electrical charges: the larger graupel tend to become negatively charged, whereas the smaller ice crystals end up with a positive charge.

From Scientific American • Aug. 2, 2022