graupel

Example Sentences

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“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

If the updrafts are strong enough and last long enough, the graupel can keep growing and become denser.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2023

Debate over whether it was snow, graupel or accumulated hail that fell on the Hollywood sign.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 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